Quotes About Stereotypes

Depictions of race have changed so much since, like, the '50s, where white people just played every race. But the pendulum swings both ways: I'm Filipino-American. If I had to wait for a Filipino role to come out to get work, I couldn't eat. There are barely any roles out there.

I never used to be taken seriously as a Swiss person.

Swiss guys are always exactly on time, but Albanians are not like this.

I would love to switch on my TV and see a disabled person talking about something they are genuinely interested in or acting out a part that doesn't just focus on their impairment.

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.

I think girls have a harder time than guys do if you're switching schools. Guys don't get picked on as long as you're OK in sports.

Maybe Asians are switching from studying to sports.

I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany. It's a small country. You don't have as many great actors there, of course.

I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.

I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'

I'd hate to be a sex symbol. Because you're always having to live up to an image. I haven't got time to sit around doing my nails.

Everywhere in TV and films, actors who become mothers are treated differently. Suddenly, people will be like, 'Oh, she's a mom, so she can't play a sex symbol role.'

Asian men specifically have not been portrayed as the leading man or sex symbol.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. You're merchandised, you're a product.

Men can be sex symbols and also earn respect for their professional accomplishments, and the same standard should apply to women.

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

You can have Asians being leading men that are sex symbols. You can have leading women powering through.

I hate when they portray women as just sex symbols in short skirts, running around playing dumb. I refuse to watch such films or be in such films.