Quotes About Stereotypes

The LAPD, like most police departments, is a male-dominated bureaucracy. A woman faces a lot of pushback.

The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.

In the '70s, '80s and '90s, noted actors like Iftekhar used to get mainly police officer roles, Bindu ji would do a negative role, and Nirupama Roy was the on-screen mother. All this had its own charm. There was a fixed casting.

I had kids make fun of me because not only was I blonde but also Polish.

If I get too glam and polished and pretty, people are like, 'Hari, why aren't you speaking up about issues?' And if I start speaking up about issues, people are like, 'Why can't you just be an actress?'

Some of the country stuff in the past has been so polished - if you were a guy with a nice pair of jeans, a big belt buckle and nice hat, you were country.

It's crazy that, as women, we are taught to be cute and nice and polite when we should learn to be less nice sometimes.

There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.

The character I've created, Christine, is mainly the first attempt for me to escape all the secret injunctions we have as girls all the time. Like, be pretty but be polite. Don't take too much space. All those things that didn't mean anything to me. I just decided to turn them around with my character.

If a man aspires for a political career, he can start at 18 and go on and on. This is not true about women, who fall back when marriage and children happen, which are equally important. That is not gender bias.

'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.

Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.

It's so politically incorrect to make a character gay and then make them 'un-gay' again. Like, once you become gay, you've crossed over, or you're not allowed to be a person who doesn't want to be defined by a label like that.

There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.

While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

I think pompous accents are inherently funnier.

I'm not really into 'My Little Pony.' I'm not a 'Brony,' just to clear that up.

I think you can assume because our pool of Asian-Americans actresses or actors - men and women - is pretty small, that whatever project is out there I probably have been asked to audition or I probably chose to not go in it for various aspects.

The biggest problem in America is most people believe poor people are poor because they are lazy.

I don't see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear 'pop,' you're like, 'Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,' and I feel like, 'Uh-uh. That's not me.'

Pop culture says that if a black girl is to be taken seriously, she has to assimilate and be as white as possible, to the point of bleaching her hair blonde.

With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.