Quotes About Stigma

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

People say: 'Oh, Covid only affects people with pre-existing health conditions,' like that's alright.

A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

I am not as crazy as people think.

I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.

Everybody in the industry thinks I'm the crazy person.

If you're going to believe crazy things, people are going to laugh at you.

If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

Crying is scary to men! To us, it's a sign that something completely earth-shattering is happening.

The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.

People have said I have brain damage, but I've passed all of my physicals, all of my medicals. They've checked my head so many times it's crazy.

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.

I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.

I focus on the fact that none of what the tabloids said defined me.

It's been taboo for so long to admit you had a mental health problem.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

There's a stigma attached to 'pop music,' like it's a taboo word. It used to make my skin crawl when people said it, and I'd say, 'I'm not a pop star! I want to be a respected musician!' But I think people have changed the way they think about it.

There's this huge taboo around talking about money that we have as a society.

Menstruation is a natural phenomenon and it is neither dirty, nor a taboo.

Prince was not scared. The first time I heard someone sing about AIDS, it was Prince: 'In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name.' He was not afraid of taboos.

The taboo regarding menstruation exists across the world, even among the educated.

Time to Talk is all about tackling taboos and getting the nation talking about mental health.