Quotes About Stigma

I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media.

The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

I am usually portrayed as a widower, I don't get a wife on any show.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

Nobody knows it, but I would be considered posh in Ireland.

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

The typecasting always happens but I am a very positive person.

When I first started working out and losing weight, I did get some people saying that 'oh you're not a body positive person anymore.' And I feel like I didn't really understand where they were coming from.

I feel like a lot of people don't have the most positive things to say about YouTubers.

I think it's a great challenge for a bowler to be captain of India and it is not looked at very positively in India for some strange reasons.

Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is. I don't need to scream it out. I won't, only because I live in a country where I could possibly be jailed for saying this.

I grew up singing and dancing, so people have been calling me gay since fifth grade. I've heard everything you could possibly hear about it. But I do love gay people, so I'm not going to act like I was insulted or angry about it.

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

I talk about postpartum depression and all these things I don't hear a lot of women talking about on TV.

Mental illness lives all around us every day. I've seen it in other family members, I've seen it in friends, and I've dealt with it myself with my own postpartum depression.

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

As a mother living in poverty, I don't expect my parenting choices to be respected by default.

Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.

Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The Other, the first response by the mainstream, if you will, is to ostracize.

I think I was born for controversies.

Why is it controversial to talk about the fact that fat people deserve to take up space and deserve to be sexy?

I'm not a convicted felon.

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.