Quotes About Stigma

She's sad in the way Laura wears glasses and Max has freckles and Beth is retarded. There's no reason, it's just the way it is.

We don't call them inmates,' Molly said, quoting one of the psychiatrists.'We call them patients.

Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.

Only old retired coots and gold-digging bimbos live in Florida.

realize I hate the word widow. It's sexless. I'm never using it again.)

If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point.

Now they think you're mad; then they thought you were a witch. Cultural mores

I think that people assume when they meet me that I'm going to judge what they're wearing.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

It's so funny because people always think of me as being a little bit country or assume that I am from the South - I don't know why!

It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.

It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want.

Nobody wants to talk about divorce, especially as a woman under 30.

Many doctors are stuck in the idea that addiction is a choice, and they don't treat that.

Most of the characters I've been offered have been very dominating and self-assured, maybe because of the way I look.

When I was at school, you couldn't draw and be into football, too. If you were into art, then you were seen as an absolute pansy, and there was no way you'd be admitted to the guys' world of football.

I always hear, 'Oh, she's really beautiful.' I'd die to hear, 'Oh, she's really smart.' I'm not as dumb as I look.

The people I make fun of most are white people. They're the dumbest ones. They really are.

I think a lot of people have the idea that all I do is dunk and all I do is make layups.

If you are serious about your work, honest and straight-forward, you are labelled eccentric.

My brother used to get beaten up all the time because he was very effeminate.

While I'm out of drag, I'm still extremely effeminate.

I take antidepressants, which I was embarrassed about for a long time, but it keeps me going.

I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.