Quotes About Stereotypes

Unfortunately we live in a world where I think women aren't actively encouraged or at least not empowered to make good work in every creative sphere, particularly in comedy.

When you get to a certain age in society, they want to dictate to you when you should pack it in and that you should mentally grab a cane, a box of Depends, Geritol, listen to the oldies, and not eat spicy food after 9 o'clock.

At some point along the way, I stopped being a writer, and I became a black writer. I never used to be a black writer. I used to write 'Spider-Man,' 'Green Lantern,' whatever was lying around. 'Thor,' 'Hulk,' whatever. Now, if the phone rings or when the phone rings, it's almost exclusively some project that has something to do with my ethnicity.

I believe it's a wrong conclusion to draw that Indians can't play spin bowling.

I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes.

As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl - how to be a good, pretty girl - from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we're told that well-behaved girls won't change the world or ever make a splash.

Even though my father had a really successful career before the '60s, that kind of insane pop-culture splash that happened was so massive. People hear the sitar and immediately think, you know, flying carpets and tie-dyed T-shirts and wafting smoke.

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.

I always took myself really seriously in my 20s and needed everyone to know that I wasn't a spoiled blond actress.

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.

I actually spoke to one of the heads of a studio, and he said I confuse middle America. Basically, when they see a black person, they see athlete, they see rapper, or they see criminal or something like that. And then when they hear a British accent, they hear posh, so they hear lawyer or doctor.

Growing up was very interesting for me. If you were Haitian, people just automatically assumed that English was a second language. So they had a special class for my brother and I, but we spoke proper English.

I was incredibly nervous about doing a period drama. I thought that to play period, you had to be English-looking and blonde and very well spoken, and have gone to drama school.

I'm prepared to try to talk to a very beautiful girl. I learned a fantastic secret, which is that the most beautiful woman in the room is not being spoken to because she's too intimidating. They're not looking for somebody beautiful; they're looking for somebody to amuse them.

The roles I used to be cast for were typically objectified women, so I was always being shown or spoken about through the lens of the guy.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.

When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.

No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.