Quotes About Stigma

We need employers to have an open mind about people with mental illness, and be willing to employ people, with the right support.

I think so many doors have been opened for the gay community as far as the dangers and horrors of HIV. There is so much more out-ness now.

Mental illness doesn't need to be hidden or glorified. It should be normalized to where people feel comfortable sharing with their families and friends and know they're not alone. By opening up about my struggle, I'm hoping I can help someone who feels like they don't know what to do or when they can't accept their situation.

An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they're openly telling you that they do.

An openly gay footballer would be exposed to abusive comments.

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.

In most science-fiction pictures, the black guy is either an engineer or a radio operator, and he is the first guy killed - gone from the movie.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. 

I will never regret not having children. What I regret is that I live in a world where in spite of everything, that decision is still not quite okay.

One began by finding mental illness mystifying, and ended by being still more mystified by health.

It's almost as if for the labouring classes, illness has to be physical. They can't take their condition seriously unless there's a physical symptom.

The world is divided up into two parts, beer drinkers and wine sippers. In other words, the world is divided into beer drinkers and assholes.

You are just lazy, lazy, and lazy people just can't get ahead in life. Of course some of you are even retarded, and that is even worse than being lazy. But we know you can't help being retarded.

All right, he may not be queer. He's just a nothing, which is worse. He isn't normal enough to have any kind of sex life, if you know what I mean.

Schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder are often spoken of by laypeople – I used to do it myself – as if they were definitions as precise as those for hepatitis or appendicitis. In reality, the names are no more than those given to a collection of symptoms observable at a certain moment in time.

Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him." But give him a good name—and see what happens!

As was the case with so many young people I encountered these days, I could not tell if the boy was truly retarded or just pitifully ill educated. Most of the population under thirty appears to fall into one or the other category.

Afernadome a un chico que todo el mundo sabe que es un tarado, un bastardo, un imbecil y un cabron

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.