Quotes About Stereotypes

I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.

It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.

I'd never carried on a conversation with a black until college.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

For some reason, not many women go into cartooning.

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.

Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

I like to create characters that are larger than life. But it's funny because I do a lot of bad guys, and it's because, being European, I usually get cast as bad guys. It's just how it is.

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.

If a casting breakdown said 'All-American Type' or 'Lead Role,' I knew they weren't thinking of me.

My ability to model does not have an effect on my ability to be an actress. But casting directors and agents in the U.K. wouldn't give me the time of day.

Like, I played baseball with all boys. They didn't want to play catch with me. I mean, it's the story of everything I've done.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

It's like everyone wants to categorize you as this and that until you've made your own mark.

I don't want to have any category stamped on my face.

I hate when people try to put me in one category.

I was so afraid of being lumped into this category of female actresses trying to sing.

I was raised Catholic, and I remember in all the pamphlets and pictures we'd look at, Jesus was basically blonde with blue eyes. He kind of looked like Jared Leto.

I think, so often, female cofounders are positioned in this competitive, catty way. It's just awful. It's not reality.

It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American.

I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.

A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.