Quotes About Stereotypes

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world.

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

No one's of Pakistani origin in any British show. That's why every actor of color is here working in the States. It's true.

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.

Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.

'English Rose' - what does that actually mean? That I am pale? That I am English, maybe? They are going to say that about any actress from this country!

I started looking at women like Lily Cole and Sophie Ellis Bextor - beautiful women with their pale skin, rather than looking at the run-of-the-mill, tanned, average lady.

The problem isn't that there's not enough women in panel games. The problem is there's not enough women in comedy in general.

I had a respected SF writer call me 'girlie' and demand that I get him a coffee, before the panel we were on together.

So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.

It's interesting that people think that pants are masculine. Pants are pants.

I don't see why clothes have to be women's or men's. It seems pretty limiting. I buy women's pants, women's shoes - everything, really.

A man could come in the room with his hair not cut, not done, pants around his ankles and people still gon' be like, 'Oh, that's his style. It's cool.' Being a woman, you have to be on your P's and Q's at all times, because not only do you have to keep up your appearance for men, but other women judge you so hard.

In the papers, they were talking about how 'Friends' is now sort of really homophobic, transphobic and so on. That, for me, is a very, very - it's actually a puritanical position, which I think of as conservative.

I don't want people abroad to see India like it's shown in a film like 'Slumdog Millionaire.' We are at par with the world.

I have stopped looking at roles as lead or parallel lead. Also, I feel these are very misleading terms.

What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.

Women are encouraged to go on an emotional journey of self-care after a divorce, while men are expected to need help learning how to cook and parent on their own.

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

Forgive me but I've been tutted at in Paris a fair few times and I still don't know if it's because I was wearing Asda jeans or had the temerity to order food in a restaurant.

I don't have a worry about women because I keep reading that not only are they better at school, they are now better at parking, better at navigating... we know that women are good at everything.

A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.