Quotes About Stereotypes

I agree that it's absurd to call a category of music 'female-fronted metal,' because if you look at Otep or Epica or Arch Enemy, we don't sound anything alike.

Women are more meticulous and methodical. But on the other hand, I feel if you go on a male-dominated set, which is mostly any other set, you don't ask how it was to be on a male-dominated set.

I grew up in a predominantly Asian and Mexican community, and because I did breakdance and poplock and all that, I did get a lot of criticism: 'You're Mexican, why are you doing that?'

It's really tough to be a Mexican on 'Breaking Bad.'

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

I like lowriders and music from the '50s and '60s. A lot of people assumed I was Mexican.

Mexicans are quasi-legal.

Just because my name is Carlos Mencia, don't think my show is going to be about the difference between Mexicans and white people.

I think that people in Mexico talk too much.

We don't eat nachos in Mexico.

In Mexico they think I'm Mexican. In Italy they think I'm Italian.

When you start making a movie, people want to know: Who's the star power? And very early, I realized there's not a lot of 26-year-old black actors who have been given the opportunity to be the lead of a film. It's, like, Michael B. Jordan, and then we're done.

Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

Certainly Roseanne Barr has power, but it seems like it's more acceptable to be heavy if you're lower middle class and blue collar.

I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.

At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'

I can pass as a lot of things: people meet me and don't think I'm gay and speak about gay people in a certain way or they don't know I'm Middle Eastern and do the same.

I always felt different and it was because I was Middle Eastern. Where most people were very fair, light-skinned, and had blue eyes, I was hairy with dark hair and dark skin.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

Most middle-aged white men probably don't know about little old Stormzy from London.

I'm not always in that good with middle-aged heterosexual men.

Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days.

I don't like that politics is associated with middle-aged, greying men.

I came from a middle-class family in Mexico, from a household full of women, in a country that is very machista.