Quotes About Stereotypes

Do you think that the day you reach forty you will be any different than you were at thirty-nine or forty-one for that matter? People create little ideas about ages so they can write silly self-help books, stick stupid comments in birthday cards, create names for internet chat rooms and look for excuses for crises that are happening in their life.

So what's your major? Have you figured it out yet? Yeah, biology. I'm hoping to go to med school. How about you? Elementary education. She could have told me she was majoring in shit-eating with a minor in injecting guys with AIDS blood while they slept, and I would have thought it was the greatest, most noble thing in the world.

Dixie people wouldn't have listened to a black woman

After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.

I hate for people to think that I have only played for West Ham because I am the local lad and people make allowances for me.

Ever see a guy with cerebral palsy run through a speed ladder? I mean, that is funny.

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

I've played a lot of weird women. I play crazy ladies, and I've played a lot of insane women and weird best friends that are not sexually desirable.

I'd rather wear black than bright florals like most fat ladies do.

People sometimes get ideas about us that are not of our creation. Journalists, for instance, have always wanted us to be something we're not. They've said that we have a big student fan-base, but that's simply not true. We have loads of older fans as well. Increasingly, ladies in their mid-fifties seem to like us.

Some felt my looks would not go down with the Bengali audience. They felt I was not photogenic. Others felt I was just what Bengali cinema needed when there was lack of glamour for heroine roles and there were few leading ladies around.

Where I'm from, to do acting is not heard of. Being one of the lads and all, you don't just go, 'Oh, I want to be an actor'. They'd laugh and joke about it.

At Rada, I was cast as Lady Macbeth and tried to do it as seriously as I could, but people still started laughing. I just think they find my face too funny.

Down South, there was the old 'ladies-don't-do-such-things' way of thinking. You couldn't be a lady and a good athlete at the same time.

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

Whenever there's heavy-duty emotional work to be done, they call me. As for playing the completely off-the-wall, sexy, gorgeous lady that I am - no, they don't think of me.

A lady of a certain age must keep her top on. That's what I feel.

The kind of career that I want is not easy as a lady to manifest, because everyone wants a lady to be likable.

A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.

We're never gonna have a nice lady run for president.

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

I'm as lame as all dads are.

Being a Filipino actor in Hollywood, the most frustrating part of landing roles in Hollywood is definitely the limited roles available and the lack of diversity.

I started doing flats because women would always apologize for wearing them when they met me, as if they had to be in heels when meeting a shoe designer.