Quotes About Stereotypes

Before, gay portrayals in the media were so limiting, like a caricature of a homo. A parody almost.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way they want Scotland to look like and to behave like.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

My being Muslim is only one part of my identity. But particularly in India and the world over, a concerted effort is being made to diminish all other aspects of identity and only take your religious identity as who you are.

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

I'm so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I'm like an English boy going to an American college. I'm thinking cheerleaders, I'm thinking kegs. That's not what's on the cards.

I don't think I'd get employed if I did pastel eye and a side parting. People would say: 'Get someone else for the job!'

We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

Of course I have the license to make up things, but I think a lot of what's written about China is misleading, and most Americans don't know much about China, in-depth, even though China is such a crucial business partner, rival, whatever.

More often, I'm asked to play somebody's mother, somebody's partner, somebody's wife.

Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

I just gravitate to those more testosterone-filled sort of parts than me playing something a bit more fairy-like.

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.

What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'

I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don't believe that it's a necessary element. I feel that I'm a character, and I'm an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I'm playing can be a hindrance.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same.

Liberal elites and Democratic Party elders want all Hispanics to fall into a monolithic liberal agenda.