Quotes About Stereotypes

We don't have 'posh' in Canada. It's just not a thing that exists.

People put me in this ditzy, posh and stuck-up category, so it's been nice the public have been able to see the real me.

I was always told at school I was posh, then I came to London, and here I'm told I have a country accent.

Posh people blow my mind. Apart from empathy, they're good at everything - true survivalists.

People assume I'm posh because I'm one of the acting dames. I grew up in Tottenham and didn't used to speak like I do now.

I get told I have a 'period' face quite often. Maybe it's the pale skin but I get a lot of pre-Forties posh roles.

There is this feeling among black artists that you have to be really careful. We're not inclined to talk about this stuff because, if we do, we put ourselves in a position where we're not marketable or where we can't win.

The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven't yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.

We haven't always been aware of it, but the 'locker-room bro talk' has long been going on not just in locker rooms but in some corporate conference rooms. Of course, not by all men. But by some - including some who hold positions of power. And that matters in holding women back.

I'm African-American. There are more eyes on me than anybody. They're going to take the negative before the positive.

The typecasting always happens but I am a very positive person.

I feel like a lot of people don't have the most positive things to say about YouTubers.

The images that we see of Africa are so... that are so engrained in our minds are of this place that is terrible - like hell on earth. And that doesn't acknowledge the positive things - the many, many, many positive things - that people are doing.

What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.

When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs.

What I want is a world where neither gender nor sex are destiny. Where no child is ever told there's anything they can't do, or must do, 'because you're a boy' or 'because you're a girl.' It's not a world where anything is 'taken' from anyone - it's one where everyone's possibilities are enlarged.

I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldn't possibly be thought of as gay.

There's a lot of big guys who can play-make. We put labels like, 'Oh, he's a point guard, he's a center.' But sometimes your center can play-make for you and not just be the center, boxing out for rebounds and playing in the post.

I know that I'm very feminine and that I can pass in a lot of situations, but I think a lot of people's perceptions of me are also informed by my the pictures that I post online, which are as flattering as possible.

You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.

I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.

Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

On the outside, America looks like this great melting pot, but on the inside, there's this segregation in American cinema. Why does a Latino film have to be for Latinos? Why is a black film just for black people? Why?