Quotes About Stigma

They've said everything about me that they could: racist, Marxist, rightist, homophobic, sex change - I don't know what else they could come up with.

In this industry, there's a massive pressure to be a certain weight.

Back in the day when I started on the independent scene, guys would not watch women's matches, and if they did, they would do it to make fun of us.

I'm not in Hollywood because I'm good at math.

You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.'

In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Drugs have ruined Punjab.

The rumours and link-ups with my co-stars are upsetting. Is it a crime to be a divorcee and a single woman? Does being a divorcee mean you can't have a life?

When you get sacked, everybody thinks: 'He's a football manager, he'll get lots of money,' but you still get sacked, which for me is a slur on you, it degrades you.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

People seem to think I'm Satan.

When you have a name that means scares, you have to live with that.

It's very scary having something wrong with your head.

Knowing you're gay, as a kid in the '80s, is a very scary thing.

Schizophrenia runs in the family.

Most laws that we make to protect people from guns are usually ignored by the criminals and obeyed by the law-abiding people. And so I think that if you had better data, there'd be no one more in favor of it than law abiding gun owners because they don't want to be smeared and lumped in with the criminals who use guns.

I've got an idea; how about you don't blame all gun owners for the actions of a few?

I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.

When you talk about professional footballers, rightly or wrongly, people often already have an idea in their head about what they're like; they'll paint a picture before they've met them.

I don't look like the way we've painted directors in our movies and everything since forever. I don't look like an old white guy in a baseball cap. So, yes, there are always moments when people are surprised that I'm the director.

The thing about sexiness is that it's been painted as evil.

If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins.