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Quotes About Stereotypes

I'm a chick. I like shopping.
~ Bonnie Hammer
I don't think I make 'Chick Flicks.'
~ Nadine Labaki
We're a band and we just happen to be chicks, that's the way we've always thought of ourselves.
~ Charlotte Caffey
Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you're what my mom would call 'Protestants.'
~ Rory O'Malley
Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.
~ Hansika Motwani
A lot of people don't like child actors.
~ Peter Billingsley
There are two aspects around which the dynamics of Bollywood revolve - chivalry and chauvinism.
~ Farah Khan
I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.
~ Peter Dinklage
I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.
~ Valerie Plame
It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.
~ Emmanuelle Beart
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
~ Ira Sachs
People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper.
~ January Jones
The perception that 'Indians can't make superhero films' needs to change. We can make superhero films in the budgets given to us.
~ Remo D'Souza
A lot of black actors will sit there and go, 'Every role is about being a gangster' - then they get an opportunity to write a script and they write about a gangster. You know... write about a superhero.
~ Ashley Walters
I never imagined myself playing a superhero because I don't see myself the way superheroes have been portrayed or shown to me my entire life.
~ Krysten Ritter
I'm not that interested in female superheroes.
~ Kathleen Hanna
Ultimately, so many things come down to money, but particularly when it comes to superheroes - people really thought that only men loved action movies and only men would go see a superhero movie.
~ Patty Jenkins
I think one of the problems that comics has in dealing with superheroines is that they try to hard to make them superheroes. All they're doing is the same thing that men do. Just the idea that they're no different than men, except in how they look, always seemed a bit off to me.
~ George Perez
Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.
~ Will Durst
I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
For storytellers, financiers make ideal rogues. The easiest way to make characters unappealing is to make them rich - shorthand for spoiled, picky, superior, and cold-hearted.
~ Lionel Shriver
I have never used a fairness cream in my life. I don't think being fair is in any way superior to any other colour. And when I started working, I found that being fair has actually backfired for me. I have lost a few films because I'm too fair.
~ Taapsee Pannu
I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.
~ Megan Fox
Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind.
~ Ben Domenech