Quotes About Stereotypes

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.

I'm happy that just about on every other show there's a Latino somewhere present, and we're not all the cooks anymore.

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.

As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other battle, which is Asian Americans playing roles that aren't written for Asians, and I think that's something that completely should happen; Why can't an Asian American male just play a leading cop figure... or the Matt Damon roles?

I want to be strong enough to cope with the roles, but I don't want to be cast as the guy that takes his shirt off.

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'

One thing I do not see happening is women of certain age being represented correctly. We have to evolve conceptually.

If it's Saturday night, and you're sitting on your couch watching 'Showtime at the Apollo,' then you're not a man's man.

As soon as I speak, I think people go, 'Well, he obviously must have grown up on a council estate, gone to a comprehensive school and be working class - so I can relate to him.'

I've lost count of the times I've been asked what I do for a living. When I say rugby people say: 'Yes, but what's your other job?'

When parents ask why there are still so few girls in advanced science and math classes in high school, I tell them, because girls still need way more encouragement than boys to take those courses.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.

I think you can tell a lot by someone's footwear - cowboy boots would put me off, as would a man in Ugg boots or Crocs.

I've played a lot of cowboys.

I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.

I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.

Gay guys know how to craft, and they craft really well. Straight guys, forget it.

I feel like men in beauty have to work a lot harder just to get credibility, because it's such a women's world.

Just because we're a girl band doesn't mean that we're not credible artists.

When evaluating the suitability of a woman for a role, or using certain language in job advertisements, biases can creep in.

We, as a nation, have always worshipped cricket and cricket players, and even football. But kabaddi and kushti are seen fit only for villagers. That's changing now.

I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.