Quotes About Stereotypes

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.

Growing up, you see movies, and the big person is always the butt of a joke or the funny best friend, or they lose weight, and that's when they become redeemable.

I was basically a surfer girl from California. I never looked like a model.

People are marked down for their age - once you get past 30, people look at you a bit funny. When you get to 35, the questions are all, 'When are you going to stop?' Calm down!

For awhile the only thing people were talking to me about my music, that's all they ever said: 'You must be a nature lover. Are you camping all the time?'

You have to understand that I never thought I would have a career in music. That kind of thing didn't happen. Not for women, not in Canada, not in the 1960s. It was something I did for fun.

People are amazed that I'm Canadian and I don't have this crazy accent.

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.

I just have to work on the apologetic side because I'm Canadian. We apologize for everything.

You're always told in Canadian movies to make it look like the U.S. and people buy into the idea that that's the only way it'll work.

I like Canadians. Who doesn't like Canadians? It's amazing! They're the friendliest people on earth.

When I was a kid, I didn't know Canadians could be actors. I thought just Americans could get acting jobs.

Why do Canadians sell themselves short? I've never been able to answer that question.

As a female candidate, you always expect that some people will think you are not as capable of being an executive, or that you may be 'too emotional' for office. As an African-American woman, the bar can be even higher.

Throughout my career, I wouldn't say my roles have been based on my being considered eye candy.

Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

It's important to me for the world to see black men in different capacities - capacities in which they're probably not used to seeing them.

I know a lot of people think a cappella is this cutesy, kind of novel thing.

Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.

Asian Americans haven't had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Hollywood, just because there hasn't been that much of an interest, especially in Asian American males.

I personally think that women should have the choice to show as much skin as they're comfortable with, and it shouldn't negatively impact their careers.

You'll have a guy, and they're aging however they're aging, and nobody really cares. If you're a woman, it's different.