Quotes About Stereotypes

Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.

I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.

I grew up in musicals, and if you looked like me and sounded like me, you were the character; you were never at the center of the story.

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

People don't want their actors acting like musicians.

Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.

For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more entertaining. Everyone knows actors aren't the same people that they play in movies, but people somehow expect musicians to be a certain way all the time!

I think people, especially in the Muslim community, are rightly cautious any time you hear, 'Oh, there's going to be a Muslim character.'

To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.

I didn't want 'Ramy' to be a commercial, like 'Hey, Muslims are good!' We're underrepresented, so the instinct when we get an opportunity like this is to show people that we're good, that we have the same shared values. What's more important to me is showing that we have the same flaws.

Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it.

In a sense, by closing off the idea that young Muslims, and particularly young Muslim men, can be American heroes, it increases the chance that they'll try to be some other kind of hero. And that, I think, is entirely counterproductive.

Most Americans do really think that Muslims all want to take over and they don't want democracy and they want nothing but Islamic law.

There's a general ignorance about how Muslims live and what Muslims believe.

I think that Muslims are criticised all around the world.

I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.

I want to show straight men and gay men alike that self-care and grooming isn't mutually exclusive with, like, femininity or masculinity.

My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made sure that the comedy came first. So we weren't a bunch of Arabs trying to be funny. We were a bunch of comedians who just happened to be of Arab heritage.

The thing that we need to move on from is any time you meet somebody, we always say, 'Oh, this is my friend so-and-so. And, you know, he's a Republican.' You know, we always label each other as a liberal or as a conservative or as a Democrat or as a Republican.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.