Quotes About Stereotypes

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.

Many black youths are defying stereotypes, achieving good academic results, finding employment and contributing to their communities. But helping those who fall behind is not an exercise in political correctness, it is a precisely what a compassionate - and sensible - state should concern itself with.

What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid; why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.

I guess patriarchal stereotypes have, as is true for most people, created painful moments in my life. As a result, I'm an activist. I'm for women's rights, children's rights, human rights, animal rights. I want to be part of the solutions to try to correct imbalance. And 'Westworld,' for me, is that.

As Latinas, we tend to be overly partial considering stereotypes. I'm interested in being naughty and edgy.

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

My agent and I are very clear on what kind of roles I'm interested in, and I don't want to perpetuate any stereotypes.

As an actor, you break stereotypes all the time.

Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?

It's important to understand you can't remove the historical context of racially charged stereotypes or slurs as much as we like to pretend that we can.

The grand jury system - not just in Ferguson, but nationwide - needs a hard look. Millions feel that officers who are trigger-happy are handed a license to shoot - based not on facts, but on stereotypes the officers carry.

I believe it's on everyone - men and women - to knock down stereotypes and outdated assumptions.

Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

The message of 'Zomb-B' is that you have to listen to your own heart and head and question everything. Question stereotypes and the way the world seems or is being presented. Some of the people we should be most concerned about, dangerous right-wing bigots, sound convincing and reasonable.

In many ways, being yourself is dispelling stereotypes.

I just wanted to kind of break down those gender stereotypes and just say everyone's equal, everyone's their own person, everyone's their own individual.

I don't feel that any kind of narrow stereotypes are representative of the work I've done, nor the range of the audience that work has found. I've played lots of different roles, and they've connected with lots of different people.

I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.

I feel I'm really glad I don't look like the celebrities out there who are beautiful, because there are a lot of stereotypes attached to that.