Quotes About Stereotypes

I want people to understand that there are Asians born with the crease I had surgically done to my eyes, so the goal was never to look less Asian.

I had to prove that I could understand other aspects of human beings and not just little fat girls.

We don't sing about eating local produce or growing beards or anything like that. It's funny to find yourself in a position where people associate you with things that are completely arbitrary to your songs.

I don't think a lot of people - when they associate you with Hollywood, they don't want to think of you as normal. They want to hear, you know, all the stuff in Hollywood.

I know that when I was a kid, and I was reading whatever I could get my hands on, I didn't associate myself with the girl characters.

All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.

I'm not a down-in-the-dumps person. I think some people assume that I am because of the music I write.

Since I worked with Prince, people assumed that I was black.

I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think of poor black people in the South, they don't think people are interested in reading about those people.

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.

I was one of those athletic African players.

It always felt that there were a lot of shows where there was a white lead female, who was attractive, and then I was being offered the kooky friend. And it was just like, 'Why can't this be the other way around?'

Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

I've been asked far too often, 'Can you be blacker?' I've gotten done with auditions and heard, 'We're not going to go black with this character.'

I think mine's such a mish-mash now: I get criticised for sounding like a Yank when I come home, and everybody thinks I'm Australian when I'm in America.

It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want.

When British or Australian actors perform American characters, we laud them and talk about how great it is they are able to do this other accent that is not their own. Americans have different relationships with other accents.

There are certain situations, when you're in America, when people understand you better without an Australian accent.

Authorities in Rabat believe that if we create a Moroccan character, even in a work of fiction, we are responsible for the image of Moroccan women.

I think the word 'plus-sized' is so divisive to women.

Talking about class and identity can be as divisive as talking about race and racism.

Nobody wants to talk about divorce, especially as a woman under 30.