Quotes About Stereotypes

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.

Truth is, I've spent much of my life trying, unsuccessfully, to explode the myths about Texas.

The truth is, I feel sorry for the Old Etonians. Everybody should be judged on his or her own merits. Assuming that toffs are 'out of touch' is more modern and fashionable than assuming they have a 'natural fitness for government,' but it's no fairer.

People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.

The truth is, the NFL will never respect women and their opinions as long as the media it answers to doesn't. I'm ready when you are, Fox.

The truth is that both groups want to be noticed. Yet we view a man's desire for attention as a natural instinct; with a woman, we label her a narcissist.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

I hate that when people are like, "Well, all dwarves know each other, right?" And you want to get mad, but you can't because we do.

The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.

Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the industry might think.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond, and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.

Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, and if you want it any different you can join a Shubert chorus

There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.

People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out

I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.