Quotes About Stereotypes

I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!'

They're making me out to be a serial marrying person or something. I'm laughing at that.

In general, we as women, but also Latinas, we're always kind of serving other characters.

I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.

Sexism is real.

Often in red states you find racism, and where you find racism, you also find sexism.

I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.

The world is still sexist.

You can still be sexist even though you're not necessarily talking about women.

I wish I were a man. It would make my life easier in this sexist society.

I have played a lot of roles in my career where I'm the sexual interest. I'm always having to fight that.

I don't want people to think of me as sexy.

I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl.

Some girls are taught to be sexy.

When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.

I've auditioned so many times and been told I'm 'not sporty enough' or I'm 'not sexy.'

There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.

So many times, you pick up a script, and you think, 'OK, so she's the sexy one,' or, 'She's the ex-girlfriend.'

I think that there's this idea - especially for male readers, but female readers as well, because we're all indoctrinated, right? - where there's this idea that if a woman is tough, it can only be in a way that is still sexy.

Maybe my job on this planet is to make the Asian accent sexy.

I've worked in predominately male sets my entire life. Shakespeare? Let's talk about that.

When you're working class and you feel like you're a bit of a toerag, you think Shakespeare's not for you, you know?

I think women judge other women more harshly, always, which is a shame.

People shame women, but then you see all these guys, and they can do whatever they want. That isn't just in wrestling, that is life.