Quotes About Stigma

I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

The It-girl tag annoys me.

The McJob tag is misleading, and demeaning to our staff and franchisees.

Our industry is quick to judge you and then label you with a tag. I don't want that to happen.

You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.

After donning an item number in Rajadhi Raja,' I got a string of offers to perform similar characters. But I consciously rejected all those offers as I don't want to be tagged as an item girl.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.

Suddenly, everyone wanted to talk to me, it seemed. And not about my poetry: it was my dyslexia they were most interested in.

If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it's assumed that I'm gay.

I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.

It can be difficult for people to talk about it, because there still is that stigma around mental illness. But I would encourage people to do that, because they'll be surprised once they do 'come out' how many other people have had similar experiences.

What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?

Not talking about mental illness is killing people. We need that to stop.

Being a medium, a lot of religious people are like, 'ok. that's talking to the dead.' The bible talks about it in a very different context so I think there's more stigma to being a medium.

I think, these days when someone talks about their struggles of mental health, we are almost surprised by it. It comes as a revelation and we all really acknowledge it.

When you have been stuck in that heel, bad-guy role as the foreigner who never talks, you want to get out of there, have fun, and just be you.

When somebody openly talks about having depression, it's a very brave thing to do.

There are so many feminist groups that talk about women's rights. But, there's domestic violence against men as well. Nobody talks about it because of the social stigma.

In black and brown communities especially, mental health is not normalized. No one talks about that kind of thing.

It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

I'd hate to be the sort of player who people just regard as being tall and only good for winning headers.

People tend to shy away from tall guys who dance, but hey, we can make it look good, too!

Unfortunately the work that I do and the way the public perceives me is that I'm the hot, tall blonde. Of course I play it up.