Quotes About Stigma

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

I think people are weirded out that I like being single.

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.

The rap community has been singled out as more homophobic than other groups, but I don't think that's right. It's homophobic, all right, but no more so than the heavy-metal community or the Hollywood community or any other community.

I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.

Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I'm some kind of 'sissy' or something. That's the language that you hear in locker rooms.

I never looked at myself as the fat sister. Sometimes I would beat people to the punch and say, 'Oh I'm the fat, funny one,' because that's what people would say about me. But I never really thought that.

I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.

I did a lot of sitcoms, and being funny isn't about being beautiful. Usually, beautiful people aren't the funny people.

I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

I've had a panic disorder since I was sixteen, and they always said that's a subset of depression. And I'm like, 'I don't have depression.'

I can never celebrate a success in my career without it being picked apart because of my size or 'my health.'

Everyone has got a perception of what a footballer is and, because I am a certain size, that I can only play one way - as a battering ram.

I was raised on an estate in an inner city school where people had a go about my size, people saying I am too big to play football - which still happens today - and I used that to inspire me.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they're very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers.

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

You can give me credit on a skilled sport - golf, basketball - but when it comes to someone's appearance - how often do guys compliment another man on anything? They find it feminine.

Some people are born skinny, and that's just the way it is. You can't point a finger at them and say they're ill or anorexic. It isn't fair to people born that way.