Quotes About Stigma

People in academia and industry are not accustomed to people who have long lapses in their careers.

People still make all sorts of assumptions about me. I've just gone past the point of caring.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'

I'm not the only one that people try to put in a box. I think it's easier for people to understand things when they can categorize them.

A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.

I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.

The Catholics will never like me because of my divorces.

I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.

I remember people were horrified when I celebrated my 50th! 'Don't announce your age,' I was advised! How stupid is that.

I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

I don't think I'd know I had cerebral palsy if other people didn't tell me.

Hollywood don't always pay a lot of money. Because we're English they think we're cheap!

U.K. guys think it is cheesy to be nice.

I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.

That is the idea that good Christians don't talk about sex, at least not out loud, and certainly not in the church. I want to say that both of those ideas are fallacious.

Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.

Even at church, people would not shake my hand.

Why is it controversial that I chose to talk about my abortion? And the fact that I got an abortion when I was in a marriage and could have financially supported a child, why did I feel so much shame for that?

I think the country is ready for supporting an openly gay basketball player.

How am I supposed to pay my bills? I can't get a regular job because I have been accused of being a Nazi. Am I supposed to be homeless?

There are things that certain people aren't supposed to talk about and they're supposed to keep sheltered and go to psychologists and they try to figure them out on their own. But at the end of the day, we're all human.

Once labeled a felon, you are ushered into a parallel social universe. You can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits - forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind.

All the old forms of discrimination, the forms of discrimination we supposedly left behind, are now perfectly legal once you've been labeled a felon.