Quotes About Stigma

A prostitute is a decent worker like the rest of us, only she can't fake what she is doing.

There are more men than women in mental hospitals - which just goes to show who's driving who crazy.

Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter they're considered crazy people or something.

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

Women often don't want to be typecast as the girl that's sad.

Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.

If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.

I go into meetings, and people have this preconceived notion of me that I didn't work hard to get where I am.

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.

People obsess about casting and representation, but really, all the real work is behind the camera. Casting an Asian American into a bad role where they're shoehorned into these stereotypes is worse than not having cast them at all.

Stereotypes are so played out.

Every time we have a chance to mention it, we say we're from Staten Island. Because of some of the stereotypes, sometimes Staten Island gets a bad rap, and we're in a position to at least try to maybe change that perception.

I hear actors complain about being stereotyped, and a lot of the time, you have yourself to blame. Just don't take the part if you feel like it's a stereotypical part for you. You have control over your life. We don't have the old studio system, where you have to do what they tell you.

It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.

I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.

You walk into a room and there's already judgment. You know, like football players can't act or you're going to come in and be stiff.

This journey of education and breaking stigma around HIV is something that will have a legacy everlasting.

It's something my mother believed in: If you are in a position of privilege, if you can put your name to something that you genuinely believe in, you can smash any stigma you want, and you can encourage anybody to do anything.

By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through which we effectively, if often unthinkingly, reduce his life chances.