Quotes About Stereotypes

Boys always like to see girls kiss. I don't get it; girls don't want to see boys kiss.

If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.

I just see a lot of people who are really terrified of the "f-word." A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists.

As actors, the great thing about our career is we get to change from role to role. I don't want to be known as "put him in the movie because he has nice abs" guy.

When I see the toothless guy, as a liberal, what I say is, 'I want to help you get teeth.' Why does that make me an a**hole?

People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.

And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.

You may baptize as long as you want, but the Jew remains a Jew, the Chinese a Chinese and the Negro a Negro.

The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.

Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. Guys don"t really care, they just want to get the clothes off.

Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?

Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question.

Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.

My agent didn't want me on Disney because I'm older. But honestly, I'm not ready for older roles yet, or even the things older girls do. I am still young.

I'm just honest. They [asians] don't want to see black people generally in their movies.

Nobody wants to see a bejeweled pregnant lady from top to bottom.

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.

I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a "nerd." I don't know what really makes someone a nerd.

People don't always want to have females as leaders.

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.