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Quotes About Stereotypes

The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.
~ George Mikes
Everyone thinks softball is a girl's game. But you only think that until you get hit with it on a line drive.
~ Jerry Smith
I've been blessed to have done different roles, but I don't think people see me as funny.
~ Dustin Diamond
We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.
~ Hannibal Buress
It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Probably because I'm bald. Don't the bald people always play doctors and principals? Yeah, isn't that funny? And lawyers. A lot of lawyers and judges.
~ Jeffrey Tambor
The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy award voter with a tampon in her purse.
~ Joan Rivers
I don't know if there's anything intrinsically funny about Tae Kwon Do.
~ Jody Hill
By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.
~ Kellan Lutz
I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.
~ Martha Manning
One of the many things I want to do is dig us out of that hole so that guys, in particular, can go: "Oh, yeah. Those people are really funny. I've seen that person. It's a woman. They are funny."
~ Paul Feig
When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."
~ Sonia Johnson
Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The problem isn't that there aren't any nice guys, the problem is that all of the nice guys are ugly.
~ Carroll Bryant
Can you be a girl for a few seconds?""I'm always a girl" I frown."You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl"I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Dave walked closer to me, his dark eyes combing my every move. "Do you always hold your guitar like that?"I dropped my pick. "Do you always shop at Hot Topic?
~ Unknown
Wine is to women as duct tape is to men - it fixes everything
~ Err:509
But at the time I thought that if I could just get the world to see me the way I saw myself then my body wouldn't be the thing you walked away thinking about. I wouldn't be that fat girl.
~ Gabourey Sidibe
I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.
~ Issa Rae
Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?
~ Tracey Ullman
Hispanics still have the highest rate amongst teens with babies so at least the future housekeeping is secure.
~ Chelsea Handler
There were no Latin people on 'Star Trek,' that this was proof that they weren't planning to have us around for the future.
~ John Leguizamo
My goal is to let people see who I am as a person, not just a basketball player. Many people see athletes in a certain way - flat and one dimensional. I want to change that view.
~ Blake Griffin