Quotes About Stereotypes

Not all celebrities are dunces.

Quite honestly, I never thought it would be possible for Asians to make it in the States. But now I feel like it's totally changing. You see so many Asian celebrities now, and more and more of them are taking bigger roles in movies. I feel like everything has changed.

There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films.

There aren't a lot of roles in comedy for women of a certain age to play, especially with a 22-year-old.

My family is Jamaican. We were just the slaves that were dropped off over there. And at the end of the day when you live and exist as a Black person in America, at least to white society, to a certain extent, no one is asking where you're from and where you were born.

I think that women are raised to believe that they're supposed to want certain things, and so you feel like you're supposed to apologize when you don't want those things.

Just like any other girl, I felt pressure to look a certain way. Act a certain way.

As a woman, you're expected to behave and model yourself in a certain way, but that's not right for everybody.

It is okay, I believe it is not wrong for the industry or the audience to think that a lead actress must look a certain way or have a body of a certain type.

When everyone decides that they have to be a certain way, that there's one way to be a man and one way to be a woman, that's when we go down the wrong path.

I get it - there are very few black female actresses who have been given chances.

In Bollywood, better the body you have, the brighter are your chances of bagging roles.

I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.

Whether or not I am a 'character actor' or any other kind of actor, I really don't know. When people call me a 'character actor,' I fail to understand what it means.

I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.

I like Marvel because characters look like me and women don't have roles that make them look too sexual.

It's hard to get older as an actress. You see a lot of people, especially in L.A., chasing youth.

Hollywood don't always pay a lot of money. Because we're English they think we're cheap!

I don't look at life in terms of checking the boxes, making sure you have enough women here and enough men there.

I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.

Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

U.K. guys think it is cheesy to be nice.

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.