Quotes About Stereotypes

I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was.

I'm Southern, I'm gay, I'm little - I get Ma'am'd a lot on the phone.

I don't mind playing gay because there's a whole plethora of gay roles out there, but if I get asked to play one more Southern hairdresser, I'm going to scream.

I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go.

I think it would be a lot easier if I said, 'I feel like a dude,' but I was raised by a southern mom, so I know how to put on lipstick and walk in heels and rock that look. It's exactly that juxtaposition that confuses people.

What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl.

I'm from Florida, which I consider more southern. You cannot put Florida in the same category as California or New York.

I am a very particular and peculiar ethnicity. Southern European, Italians - they never fit in models.

Southern women sometimes get dumbed down when they're turned into characters. I don't like that.

If you talk with a Southern accent, it's perceived as though you are slow. That's not the case. I've met just as many dumb people who talk without an accent as with.

Now, I don't know about my peers, but I get nervous - okay, I genuinely freak out - when an actor starts trying on a Southern accent. That's for Brits trying to find the easiest way to sound American.

I grew up in southern California in the '80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners.

For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

Even as a Southerner, there's only so much corn-pone shucking and jiving about mama-and-gravy talk I can take.

When I first started doing screen work, I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough for this profession - all the actresses I watch on screen are gorgeous and beautiful goddesses, but I'm just a scrawny, scruffy girl from southwest London.'

Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...

Never blame men, they have too many responsibilities because they live in a country where they are being taught to take up the burden since they get an erection.

Can you, at a minimum, objectively step back—throw out the stereotypes, ditch the conformity, set aside the religion—and ask yourself, why? Why Jesus?