Quotes About Stereotypes

There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.

At one time, especially during the era of action heroes, women took a bit of a secondary role because heroes were doing most of the action.

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

We all are who we are. We're not necessarily good, and we're not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys.

I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that's changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.

I'm used to one-dimensional female friendships. It's become a kind of trope.

It is about time we reprogram the way women think, and I think it is important to push that toward women who need to understand that beauty is not one-sided.

Cogsworth, the character I did on 'Beauty and the Beast,' could be a bit flamboyant onscreen, because basically, he is a cartoon. But they didn't want Cogsworth to become Disney's gay character, because it got around a gay man was playing him.

There were not a lot of women in the theater department - it was really run by men, and so the message was that women can be onstage, but women can't really be backstage.

Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical.

You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.

If you're anything other than a white, cisgender, able-bodied dude, people are going to project narratives, imagery, and context onto you that you might not necessarily see for yourself.

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.

I knew what my scripts would say before I opened them: 'Enter Conchita.' I played handmaidens, Indian squaws, and Mexican dancers.

I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression.

The States are more accommodating to fat people - there are more plus-sized clothing labels, and people talk openly about it.

It's amazing what it opens up in women when you tell them you've just played a midwife.

I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old.

In most science-fiction pictures, the black guy is either an engineer or a radio operator, and he is the first guy killed - gone from the movie.

I was told that since I am such an opinionated woman, people would think 10 times before approaching me for their films.

I think there's just incredible amounts of labeling generally and as woman, as a man, as a gay man, as a mother, as a father, there's just a sense that there's opinions everywhere.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.

I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and all my poets look exactly like pianists