Quotes About Stereotypes

The first time I saw the Dutch character known as Black Pete, or Zwarte Piet, my heart sank, and I felt a little nauseated.

When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

Earlier at 30, a girl's career was over. Now, all of our top actresses are above 30 and doing well.

Black women have earned the right to be basic.

People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.

People think I have elfish ears.

There's not a lot of food eaten by models. I didn't really eat.

People assume that if you are an actress, you must not be very educated.

While WHO has never had a director from Africa, no one should elect me because I am from Africa.

If you don't address race, then people are like, 'Why don't you talk about the elephant in the room?' But you have to do it right. It can't be gimmicky.

Language does not make one an elite.

I hate that there's such an emphasis on women in comedy. Are women OK? Are they just as funny as men? Yes!

If my girl ends up playing football, we probably got a lot of problems. I'll encourage her to do whatever, but playing football ain't one of them.

I think a lot of women feel pressure to have kids, especially when you get engaged. And for me, I'm like, I don't want that pressure on myself.

You never see girls running after engineers.

When I entered the industry, I was told that I was fit for only television and not films.

On the old passports, mine used to say 'entertainer', but now on forms I say 'actor'. But I still worry that people will think I'm a charlatan.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often - dull.

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

For some people, it's impossible to escape binaries.

As an ethnic actor, I still feel I can't be in 'Downton Abbey' or in period dramas.

I've always made a point to play roles that aren't specified by their ethnicity.