Quotes About Stereotypes

There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich.

When I look back, I can see why people thought I was aggressive. My first single, 'Do It Like A Dude,' resulted in a lot of misconceptions about me. I'm confident - but I'm not arrogant.

We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.

I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.

From what it seems like in my follower base, they have these bad misconceptions about China, and some of them are true and some are false.

There are a million misconceptions about me but the greatest is probably that people think I'm the king of disco. I love disco but it is only one part of me.

Y'know, even in a lot of heterosexual cinema it's always kind of miserable. Love doesn't work and then, if it does work, it's suddenly a rom-com.

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would Miss U.S.A. have to say about this?'

People have always pitied spinsters. We have been derided, as if we had missed out on life.

In some ways, I missed my era because I'm big and messy and have big feelings and take up space on a stage rather than being diminutive and childlike in my woman-ness.

People expect to just hear something raunchy from a female - we're missing meaningful messages as women. We don't have enough stories.

It really pisses me off when people look at women who are older and are not in a relationship as somehow sad or missing something, because they certainly don't look at men that way.

Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

I often get mistaken for all different kinds of ages; some of them flattering, some of them not.

Unfortunately, in our country, crying is mistaken for good acting.

On the set of 'Girlboss,' I had to keep introducing myself as the show runner - literally, 'Hi, I'm the boss' - to a lot of my crew. My first AD said, 'Why do you keep doing that?' I said, 'Because I get mistaken for an extra.'

Because bisexual people almost have a foot in the gay and the straight world, their friends can misunderstand them too. Like if a bisexual man starts dating another man, people are like 'Ah, he's gay,' but you know, bisexual people remain bisexual, and their attractions can change and flux over time.

I think there's a misunderstanding that feminism is about bringing men down to bring women up and it's certainly not that.

There's no religion in this country that is more misunderstood, mis-categorized, and misidentified than Islam.

Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are.