Quotes About Stereotypes

The minute you're laughing, some people will say you're laughing at people.

There are a lot of pretty actresses in Hollywood who try to act tough, and the audience laughs.

'The Cosby Show' - no one thought there's doctors and lawyers who are married and live in brownstones! Back then no one would have thought we would have an African-American president. They would have laughed in your face.

When not dressed as Conchita I am a man, and a lazy one at that.

If I dress up, I am encouraging men to look at me and if I don't, I am lazy.

The only way I get a leading role in a studio picture is if Ryan Gosling can't play it, which is clearly the case with 'Selma.' If this was a non-colour-specific character, it wouldn't be me. It just wouldn't.

I don't know - the whole leading man, I don't buy it.

When I watch a show, and it's only six white dudes that are the leads, and I'm just supposed to be interested and relate somehow, that's just not that interesting to me.

My natural curviness means I will never be considered lean. I can be healthy, but lean - no.

Just because we finally have a Latino family on TV doesn't mean we're up there to lecture people about what it means to be Latino.

I like to think my accent isn't strong enough, but it's funny: I get people coming up to me in America and saying I sound like Mel B. She's from Leeds. They just hear a British accent and probably can't quite work it out.

Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.

Liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God.

I'm not a model or an actress; I'm just a 23 year old who likes to talk about science. Why does what I look like matter so much?

I'm in limbo. The baseball people are like, 'Oh, he's basketball athletic.' The basketball people are like, 'Well, he plays baseball, so he's probably not that athletic.'

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

One of the problems we had was trying to live up to this bubbly image. All the music was supposed to be bubbly. That's what people expected from us. But that was very limiting.

We try not to think that our listeners are one-track-minded people with the music they listen to.

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature.

There are not very many opportunities for little people in the industry. There are small parts and character parts, but we don't get the girl-at-the-end-of-the-film kind of parts... but I was quite happy with what I was doing.

People balk at the fact that I've played loads of gay characters. Maybe I have, but you know what? It doesn't matter.

I'm from Long Island, which is a very cookie-cutter place.

Unfortunately, we are part of an industry where if a man and woman have worked together for such a long period of time, they have to be linked up.

I get a lot of the time, 'We don't know how to market you,' or, 'You're too big.' Or, 'We have one of you already,'. But you don't have one of me already; you don't have a seven-foot, lovable guy. You don't have that.