Quotes About Stereotypes

Why can't ladies like nice guys?

I seem to get cast as one of two extremes. Either I play the butch heavy or totally nice guys.

Just like there are nice guys and not-so-nice guys, there are nice women and the not-so-nice. The problem is that, in India films have only shown one side of women.

All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.

Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.

I get cast a lot of times in movies with nice people for some reason - because I have a nice face or something.

There's so many misconceptions about me and my personality. People think I'm not a nice person, you know, or maybe a diva; not just about me, but the misconceptions of other models as well, or supermodels.

Just because you're a woman in gaming doesn't mean you're a nice person all the time necessarily.

Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

Some Nickelodeon executives were worried about backing an animated action show with a female lead character. Conventional TV wisdom has it that girls will watch shows about boys, but boys won't watch shows about girls. During test screenings, though, boys said they didn't care that Korra was a girl. They just said she was awesome.

I'm a first-generation American. My parents are from Nigeria. I had this weird last name that looked Japanese, and then people would see me and go, 'Oh. You're not Japanese.'

In every school, there's always the kid who gets it the worst, and I was, for sure, that kid. Every time you had to get in a line that was boys and girls, it was like my worst nightmare. A lot of kids I know got made fun of for being gay; that was not my issue: I was just called a girl endlessly.

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous.

I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

The Brits know how crazy Adele is. Americans have no clue about Adele and how crazy she is!

Indians are very intelligent - of that, there is no doubt - but we are not necessarily hard working.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

When you watch TV, I didn't know black people were that happy. I had no idea they were that happy. I'm trying to find them.

And if it's a boy, I will be really nervous because I have no idea what to do with a boy because I am a girl and I have a girl!

One funny thing I realized is how many people had no idea that I was gay because they don't bother to look it up or ask.

In L.A., people will recognize me for doing 'Girls,' but have no idea that I have ever done anything on Broadway or can sing or dance or any of that stuff.