Quotes About Stigma

If I put up a hot photo, people think I am only interested in doing raunchy roles or special songs.

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

The phrase 'working mum' makes me nervous.

I don't understand why it's not okay to be plus-size. I don't know why people hate that phrase. Many models have built their careers as plus-size women and then suddenly don't want to be called that anymore. But you're still cashing checks from plus-size designers.

Depression is a physical illness.

Why aren't we talking about it in health classes in school? That's just as important as learning about physical health and nutrition. Why aren't we learning about our minds and our mental health and mental illnesses? I just think that it's something that very much needs to go hand in hand.

I grew up in a very 'Friday Night Lights,' sports-focused town. I did not play the sports. I was never bullied physically, but I was called names. I was also an overweight kid. I knew what it's like to feel like the other, to feel written off for things that were not in my control - my appearance, my interests.

Physically, no one would ever consider me for the serial-killer lady.

You can never just write off a person as crazy. I think that is the most inhumane thing you can do to someone without physically abusing them.

I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to wear really big glasses. I was the epitome of a nerd.

I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

We might accept pit bulls personally, but America still doesn't accept them institutionally, where it counts; indeed, apartment complexes and insurance companies are arrayed in force against them.

We have funny ideas about how people in mental institutions act. We think of drooling and people going booga-booga and climbing the wall. These are exceptional cases.

People do think I was a one-hit wonder, that I'm maybe not the kind of singer that I can really be - that impression is there. I have to work really hard to break down those walls.

I was in a mental hospital. That's all I wanna say. I don't wanna say anything more.

I don't wanna be like somebody that just depicts black characters where drugs and guns are just a majority of what they have to do.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Ukraine told me I couldn't return. They put me on a list of terrorists and war criminals.

I never planned to lose weight. Even when I was born the doctor credited me as an overweight child in the ward. At school too, I was awarded a prize for maximum weight. So it was never like, that being fat was in fashion and I suddenly decided to get it.

I am sending a memo to every man in the world: just because you make an effort with your wardrobe doesn't make you a wuss.

I knew when I shot the 'She Keeps Me Warm' video that the comments were not going to be homophobic... that they would be about fat-shaming. I'm a large girl making out with somebody. I knew just that sheer fact would set people off.

I discovered that I was 'different' in the third grade. As the new kid at school, I was trying hard to find my footing. I thought I had made friends with a couple of girls - until they stopped talking to me. When I confronted them, they said their mothers had warned them to stay away because they might catch my skin condition.