Quotes About Stigma

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'

The whole MS stuff put the kibosh on my career. And I sort of let it go. I even have a friend who went to CBS and said, 'I want Teri Garr to be in this series,' and the head of the network said, 'Oh no, she's got MS.'

So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers.

New Yorkers never really liked Too $hort.

I've wrongly been called sick by newspapers and magazines throughout my entire career.

When I started years back, there was a lot of apprehension to don a mother's role. People feared that once you play a mother, you will get similar roles from next time too. But look at actresses like Kareena Kapoor or Malaika Arora. They look so hot in real life despite being mothers.

Just because you're a woman in gaming doesn't mean you're a nice person all the time necessarily.

Every one called me scruffy, a scratter, that's what they used to call me. I was known as that. Scratter was the nickname.

In every school, there's always the kid who gets it the worst, and I was, for sure, that kid. Every time you had to get in a line that was boys and girls, it was like my worst nightmare. A lot of kids I know got made fun of for being gay; that was not my issue: I was just called a girl endlessly.

We might take it for granted now, but back in the nineties, who was talking about mental health?

I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

A lot of times, I'll get roles where it's the dumb blonde or the cheerleader, and I just have no interest - and it can be a great movie, it really can - or the mean girl; those things don't intrigue me much.

Nobody wanted the 'Roseanne' show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.

We live in a world where mental health is real. Emotional health is real, and people feel like no one cares.

There's no pressure on me to be a particular weight. But I loathe being renowned as a 'larger' model. It makes me cringe.

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

Both suspect the white poor. The right regard them as scroungers, who steal the money of the middle classes, either by breaking into their homes or by taking their taxes in benefit cheques. The left regard them as sexist and racist homophobes.

In fact, most of what they're calling crime is a kid caught with a joint in his pocket. Why do people think of that as the problem?

You'd be amazed how little choice you have about loony bins.

Try flying any plane with a baby if you want a sense of what it must have been like to be a leper in the fourteenth century, but try the shuttle for the ultimate in shunning. All those men in suits, looking at you as if your baby is going to throw up over their speech drafts; all those men in suits who used to look at me with respect when I pulled out my American Express gold card, now barely able to conceal their contempt for me and my portable Wet Ones.

Try flying any plane with a baby if you want a sense of what it must have been like to be a leper in the fourteenth century.

Did he mean me or Jenny Mullendore was a slut? Joanne wondered. Because honestly, I don't see how she has the time for slut activities with those two preschoolers of hers. Me, I've got lots of time.