Quotes About Stereotypes

You can sleep with a blonde, you can sleep with a brunette, but you'll never get any sleep with a redhead!

People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.

I've never been one to carry race on my sleeve, and I've never been one to really use my race.

I certainly don't know a lot of anti-Semitic people, but I've got plenty of friends that have a whole bunch of Jew jokes up their sleeve, and every time it's relevant, it will come up.

I'm not a country music fan, so if you slide me some music and say, 'You gotta check this out; it's country,' I'm going to be a little hesitant to listen, and I think if someone says, 'Hey, you gotta listen to this guy rap; he's Christian,' you're like, 'I don't identify as Christian, so not really sure I want to listen to that.'

There aren't a lot of Portuguese models, so everyone always expects me to be Brazilian because of my features, sometimes even American, as I have a slight American accent when I speak English.

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.

I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people.

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

I was questioning what it means to be a man. I didn't feel as masculine as I thought I should. I was out of shape, slightly depressed, inactive, and didn't feel like I belonged to something. I started thinking about what the definition of a man is, and realized they're all these archaic tropes.

If you walk into any magazine store, I guarantee that nine out of 10 covers will feature white, blonde, blue-eyed, slim women because that's still the ideal of beauty. When a black or Asian figure shows up in a fashion magazine, she's the exception, not the rule.

Ageism is interesting for me because I've been playing someone in my 40s since I was 20 or so, but I have experienced it. I've been lucky in that I haven't had to play the ingenue and feel that slip away.

I've heard people say to me, 'How can you claim to be a feminist when you dress like that?' I wear a lot of slip dresses and nightwear and stuff. People always question my credibility because of that: 'Oh, are you selling sex? Are you doing this or that to be recognized more or to sell your music?' No, it's just a fashion thing for me.

I lived in Park Slope, which is probably one of the most homogenized areas of Brooklyn. No offense to Park Slope.

A lot of people want to put you in a slot. They want to categorize you. So I fought that, because I liked all different kinds of music.

In Hindi films, there is a definite slot for every character and situation.

I think, for so long, women of different sizes have been pigeonholed, and with every campaign, it's always an adaptation of making fashion but for plus sizes. Sometimes it's in a little bit of a negative way, and plus is always a little bit slow to be fashion forward.

I think it's a common misconception that because you're a woman, you can't command a set and have people respect you, and for some reason, Hollywood is really far behind every other industry. It's getting better; it's just slow.

My competitors won't be thinking, 'Oh, she's only 18, let's go a little slower for her.'

Little boys are different from little girls, tend to develop more slowly, and are generally more stupid than their sisters.

I think a common misconception about a small town in rural America is that everyone believes the same way, and nothing could be further from the truth.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.