Quotes About Stereotypes

I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.

When you're younger, everyone wants to be a point guard. Everyone wants to shoot fadeaway jump shots all day. Nobody wants to be a big man. Nobody wants to go stand on the block and just set picks.

If you're not a scoring point guard, people don't think of you as highly. They don't think of you as the type that's going to make an impact in college because you're not trying to score 20 points a game. You're more trying to get 10 assists.

Every time a young driver comes into F1, the finger's pointed at him over his age. I don't think that's right.

Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified.

I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

Breaking cliches for women has never been easy.

Latins are into clowns.

I really didn't want to expand the negative vision of clowns because clowns are not intrinsically scary.

People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.

We all can't learn how to code when, you know, we're 50 years old.

I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which is just code for white.

I've been told that I wasn't Latino enough, which was code for 'street' enough.

My big entrance into this industry was playing an enslaved person, which is an absolute clich of people of color.

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.

There's this idea if you are a woman of colour, that you must never let them see you break down. That we've got to show ourselves in the best light, always, as the 'Strong Black Women' and bring that 'black girl magic' all the time.

Because I was assigned female at birth and I am light-skinned, white, I think people hear my message more than they hear it from someone who was assigned male at birth and is a person of colour.

There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it.