Quotes About Stereotypes

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

Do people think Swedes are cool? I think they think you're cool in spite of you being Swedish. But the good thing with being Swedish is that we're melancholic.

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

It's hard to find a good guy... all girls know that guys don't think with their brains.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

You might be a redneck if you think people that send out graduation announcements are show-offs.

I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.

I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

People think plus-size models don't exercise – we do! But it's about health, not forcing my body to be something it's not meant to be.

We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won.

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry.

Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.

Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.

In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that.

The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.