Quotes About Stigma

If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the U.K., you're labeled a racist.

Mental illness is real, and I got them. I don't know if it's the multiple concussions or the lifestyle choices.

It was a very hard decision to let people know about the multiple sclerosis because we're in an industry where illness is not something that show business likes.

I am bouncing back despite being a girl from Mumbai who didn't work for two years. A lot of others girls in the same situation would have had to walk away from the industry.

I know what it's like to be growing up, called 'deaf and mute' and 'deaf and dumb.' They're words that are very degrading and demeaning to people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It's almost... it's almost libelous, if you want to say that.

Coming out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian. To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip - artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.

I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career.

The bedroom tax turfed people, many of them disabled, out of their homes, while the government disseminated myths about people living it up in council houses the size of small mansions.

If you have bad hair and you bite your nails, nobody expects that you can't direct plays.

It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.

I must be the only actress in history who has been asked to be naked for untitillating reasons.

I've experienced cyberbullying my entire life due to just having a last name that people knew.

When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.

I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.

There are very few people whose names come to symbolize their achievement, even if it's a negative achievement.

I think you can tell a great deal from a name. For me, there are certain names that I hear, and I think, 'Urgh.' For me, a name is a shortcut of finding out what class that child comes from and makes me ask, 'Do I want my children to play with them?'

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

I think it would be very hard to go out with an actress, because they're mad. Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

How do you think your body and mind would respond if you were surrounded by psychologists, psychiatrists, or drug and alcohol counselors who subscribed to the belief that once an alcoholic or addict, always an alcoholic or addict and who believed that your current stay in rehab would be one of many?

I was to suffer considerably from the wide acceptance of the dictionary's limited definition of the word, transvestite. Perhaps my discomfort was not without some reason, for since then, a number of medical authorities have posed the question of whether or not it is advisable to apply new terms to cases such as mine.

Agatha Christie's tales were aggressively anti-intellectual and crueller for it; hers was a world where confirmed bachelors committed suicide out of shame.