Quotes About Stereotypes

Up until 'Bridesmaids', the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.

When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

In 'Losing My Cool,' I argue repeatedly that it is a terrible lie, which has been foisted on us and sold to us for decades now, that hip-hop culture equals black culture, that being authentically black means keeping it real.

I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

There are very few games, especially on the scale of 'Horizon,' that have a sole protagonist that is female.

There's no problem with a woman being president of the United States if you take her gender as a sole issue. Gender shouldn't matter.

Whenever I told women - friends or acquaintances - that I had to go to divorce court, they'd invariably, without skipping a beat, ask, 'What are you going to wear?' It was like instant female solidarity: of course it mattered what I was going to wear.

My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them.

I have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like things seen as feminine. I want my son not to feel self-conscious he likes ballet and my daughter to carry on playing Han Solo; that's all.

With my first high school band ever, we would have these breaks in the song for idiotic solos, solos that were un-tasteful and would be shredding, but I needed to put them in there, and I realize now it's because we were playing shows with a whole bunch of bands that were all male.

Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

Some people think a boxer is a gloomy guy with this heavy brow who always has to be serious. But why can't you laugh a bit, make a joke?

I do not feel that some things are masculine and others are feminine.

I think that girls are always expected to have opinions about each other, and maybe I don't have an opinion about some things, you know?

I've read some things where people are like, 'Beyonce wants to be white' because she has blonde highlights in her hair, but it's ridiculous. You know, she is who she is, and she's a very proud black woman. I know people with natural hair that are the least black inside; you know, it doesn't matter.

When somebody's different, it's so easy to dismiss what people say because of what they look like. They really want to judge the book by its cover.

If you tell someone, 'Hey, your daughter is going to win a Nobel Prize someday,' it makes it less likely. If you say, 'Your son is in danger of dropping out in the ninth grade,' it could make it more likely.

I hate the idea that you somehow, as a human being, have to be put in a box. There's no reason why lawyers can't be fun - or actresses can't be serious.

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.

I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.

There are fear mongers who talk about Islam as somehow it is an incubator of hate... remember Christians, like the Westboro Baptist Church, are just as capable of promoting intolerance.

Somehow, casting directors tell me that I don't have that innocent face to play a lead on TV. I only get negative roles to play.