Quotes About Stigma

I think most five-foot-two people would be quite offended if they were to be called dwarves.

When I first began competing, brands were quite hesitant to feature disabled athletes in advertisements, perhaps due to a fear of offending consumers.

There is nothing offensive about the word 'obese.' It is a descriptor of a person's weight.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.

I keep getting offered these women-with-a-disease things.

I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is.

In the industry, once people see you in a certain mold, you start getting offered only those kind of roles.

The characters I usually get offered are described as 'none too bright' or 'funny but a little air-brained.'

When I went from Tottenham to China a lot of people said that was it, my career was over. I had a couple of other offers at the time but they were both loans and I would have had to go back at the end. I just wanted to play.

After I played the frigid doctor on the 'Peyton Place' series, all I got for a long while was offers for more frigid doctor parts.

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

Every article starts that way: Zdeno Chara, six-foot-nine, big strong defenceman. I'm like, Oh my God, does every player get their weight and height listed before they write something about him? No.

It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.

I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me.

I really brought that with me: that people think gay people are disgusting... I remember thinking, 'Okay, I might be gay. But I won't tell anybody. Nobody will ever know.'

I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.

I don't colour my hair, and I look like the back end of a bus, so I get asked to play old people.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.

It is so important for young people to see characters with different mental health challenges on-screen.

One of the things I like about comedy in general is that it affords Asian Americans the opportunity to not be noble.

I wrote a show - just as a joke, actually - and called it 'Bipolar, Bath, & Beyond,' just to bring some humor to it. I wasn't saying to myself that I'll 'come out' with it - I didn't think there was anything to 'come out' with - I was just writing another one-woman show about my life.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

At the time, when I was growing up,my habits were misconstrued as laziness, not caring. But when I got out onto the pitch I actually did care about football, I just showed it in a different way.