Quotes About Stereotypes

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

Men are intimidated by smart women. They make us want to kick up our game more.

Intelligent women always marry fools

Women are never at ease when they have ideas.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

Just because I am a Muslim doesn't mean that I need to live in a certain way and sport a certain look.

I don't think you have to be this macho man all the time, just because you play sport.

Everyone gets the impression that bodybuilders are narcissistic, and we look at ourselves in mirrors all the time. But that side of the sport doesn't appeal to me.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated', because I've always been skinny.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

All people who are trying to say that only a sportsman should be appointed as an ambassador, I would like to differ from them. No need to think that only a sportsman can represent the country.

My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you'd have to sing or wear a pretty dress. But boys could just sit there and be brilliant for sitting there and being boys. It makes you that little bit more forward. Pushy. I was singing, always.

When you're a queer person put in the spotlight, you're supposed to have all the answers.

Often in the past, when we have had a deaf person in the spotlight, we have been portrayed badly. It was up to me to change that.

If I told you how many times guys on set get spray muscles... men need to realize that they don't need to live up to what they think they need to live up to!

I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

Preconceived judgments. I think we're all guilty of it. I judge other people even though I get judged myself. It's such a disease and gets spread so much through social media.

If you look at a bill of comics at a comedy club they spread the women out over the months because there aren't that many women doing it.

Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.