Quotes About Stigma

they tremble and hide under the table when a local branch of ADL calls them 'anti-Semites'. Like the label of 'witch' in Salem, this word triggers a spasm wave in the target population.

That is what whores are for, after all; to put up with the ecstasies of the unlovely

Shit, it was so damn girly. Next thing you knew, she was going to start crying at TV ads and doing her nails. And getting a frickin' pocketbook.

So, yeah, his people wouldn't have just frowned on his sex life; they would have handled him only with barbecue tongs while wearing a Hazmat suit and a welding mask

He was from the land of labels. Which was not the same as quality, was it.

Oh, that's right. You got your happily ever after, so you're too good for us sluts.

I think anyone who's willing to be brutally honest with who they are and express themselves is always going to get the oddball label, the pyscho label, the twisted label. That's what happens.

Sometimes I tic or twitch or cough, and it's a very public thing.

I got anxiety in April of 2014. I was hospitalized for two weeks, and they didn't know what was wrong with me, and at the end, they gave me a low dosage of Xanax. Before the whole anti-Xanax message in what I do, I was actually pro-Xanax culture.

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.

Let's call a spade a spade: when people look at me, they say, 'Oh, she's the androgynous one.' I'll tell you what type of character I would never be offered out there: The femme fatale. Or the white-trash, heterosexual hillbilly.

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the 'compassionate mother' or whatever.

I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.

For me, playing a mother was a point of resistance; the question of 'will I get typecast' was going on in my mind.

People like you in negative roles, they want to see you only in negative roles and thus you get typecast. At the end of the day, what matters is whether the audience loves you or not.

I have a problem being called a comedian. An actor must never be typecast in one way or the other.

I can't be typecast as a comedian. Only an actor capable of doing three-dimensional roles can do comedy.

Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

When AIDS first appeared, people didn't know what it was. You'll remember that it affected mostly young gay men - it was actually called GRID for a short period of time: Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Syndrome - and people thought it actually might be recreational drugs or other types of toxins.

I know I'm not popular with all the people. Remember, I am 'cruel' or a 'pharaoh.' That's all right. In politics, you get called all types of names.

I'm a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don't look like the typical reader. I'm in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.

You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look.

Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing assistance. The opposite is true.