Quotes About Stigma

Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.

There's a lot of charming bigs. I don't know if it's like the fat kid on the playground or what.

When a woman is anything but pleasant, she is labeled as whiny, hysterical, etc.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.

Owing to our Indian beliefs, not many believe in organ donation. But I think it's an amazing thing to pledge the donation of organs and is not something people should look down upon.

There were plenty of times before I did stand-up where I needed counselling, but I didn't go because it would have meant I was officially ill.

I did not label myself 'plus size.' The fashion industry did.

I'm OK with being called plus size, I'm OK with being called fat. If someone is shouting that I'm fat in the street in a derogatory way, then obviously I'm not OK with that, but I'm comfortable using the adjective fat to describe myself, because I am fat.

I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.

It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view - I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.

Every time a young driver comes into F1, the finger's pointed at him over his age. I don't think that's right.

At first, I was scared that if I claimed I modeled, people would be like, 'What?'

The claims that I am gay don't faze me. I don't care if people think I'm gay; why would I care? I would be proud.

I did take some cooking classes in high school. Boys weren't really supposed to take them. I had to risk being made fun of.

Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.

Players do not come out of the closet because they are afraid. We have to appear hard and strong, but we are afraid of what people will say about us. Of course, I have nothing against anyone. I respect everybody.

What would people say if I had only asked to ban Muslim clothing? They would burn me as a Muslim hater.

I feel like people in the industry are scared to take that chance because it's not easy to design plus-size clothing.

I think when coaches look at me, they don't see a prototypical running back.

One thing I hate in ethnic comedy is giving the audience the opportunity to laugh in a racist way at a thing. A lot of times dwarf comedians will do that, Arab comics, and gay comics will do it; everyone is laughing, but they're not laughing at the joke, they're laughing at this crazy character.

I am shocked that both the Congress and SAD make fun of comedians.

I get comments saying that I'm a leper, I control how my skin changes, I bleach my skin, my skin's burned. None of those are true.