Quotes About Stigma

Stepping into the gym or going out to do sports is a scary thing for a trans person - you feel like everyone is looking at you.

When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.

I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.

I just think gay men are looked at much less favorably than gay women. If you look at the overall stereotype, lesbians are sexy, and gay men are disgusting. Girl and girl is fine, and guy and guy seems to just be something completely different.

People are quick to stereotype you and very lazy in their imagination to think beyond the first few films a heroine does.

I don't want to perpetuate a stereotype. I don't want to take Asian representation backwards two steps. I don't want to be part of the problem.

I was never a playboy, you know? But it's easy to say that because it's just a stereotype. 'OK, this boy did college so he must be a playboy.'

It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.

Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.

Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.

The young and the old are defenseless against relatives who want to get rid of them by casting them in the role of mental patient,and against psychiatrists whose livelihood depends on defining them as mentally ill.

Destigmatizing male vulnerability is the first step toward rebuilding the absolute ruin that straight men have left the world in.

Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

It's true what they say, you know: if you talk to God, you're religious; but if you hear from God, yor're schizophrenic.

The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's that no-one will let us.

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

I gave myself the nickname 'Bipolar Rock N' Roller' way back in the 1990s, when - as much as we don't talk about mental health now - back then it was almost nonexistent. And if it was broached, it was done in a very pejorative way.

That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.

I can't be normal. I'm probably bipolar.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

Although homosexuality has been normalised, it is not normal.

I'm a normal person. I don't see where people come off saying I'm crazy.

Some people don't like showing any deviation from normality, but I like talking about things like that, so talking about my mental health wasn't a big deal.

I didn't want to be classified as a northern actress.