Quotes About Stereotypes

In my experience, the more aggressive a woman is, the less guilty she seems. Or maybe it's the guiltier an aggressive woman is, the less rational she becomes. That's a hard thing to judge from the inside.

Two kinds of people always lie about their ages: actresses and Latin American pitchers.

Whites always have to watch what they say. Blacks do not. Black comedians, for instance, can tell jokes about white people right to their faces, and whites are expected to laugh. Thank goodness for black comedians. If not for them, no one would be able to point out the occasional absurdities of black culture. If a white person tried, he would be off the air quicker than you could say "Kramer from Seinfeld.

If you Find A Wife, they say, your Favorability Rating will improve, because although you are neck and neck with Nancy Fucking Beavers, a middle-aged woman with an ass like two neighborly cast-iron skillets who wears those unbelievable pantsuits — Nancy Fucking Beavers is not fucking single.

No man wants a woman who dresses like a dishwasher.

I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try to work from.

Nobody ever asks men about the work-life balance, and I just find that interesting, because clearly, I would imagine most men also want to be good fathers, and I'm sure they want to be good partners.

Never send a boy to do a man's work; send a woman.

I think that when you are famous, it can work against you, people have preconceptions about your image.

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."

I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.

My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

Women of color: if you're over 40 and you get fat, you will work. But if you're hot and over 40 and a woman of color, they don't know what to do with you.

When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want.

What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.

To me, Sheitan movie is the answer to all the problems we have in France concerning immigration. That is a fake problem; people can actually work together and do something very interesting out of it.