Quotes About Stigma

We want to blame people who have brain disorders - they should somehow be able to magically rise above it. It's a profound misconception.

There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.

I'm accused of promoting eating disorders which makes me so angry.

I don't think actors are any more prone to depression than anyone else.

There's still, dare I say it, a cultural propaganda against the Irish, that we are, as women, 'feisty.' I hate that word.

Not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds, but that's where the propensity lies.

I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose,' man?'

I don't have the proportions for 'hood hot.'

Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.

I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

I bet you're worried. I was worried. I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them.

It's a totally ridiculous, completely unsexy word. If you use it during sex, trying to be politically correct-- Darling, could you stroke my vagina?-- you kill the act right there. I'm worried about vaginas, what we call them and don't call them.

I grew up thinking that writer and secretary were the same, except that a writer usually smelled of cocktails and came more often to meals.

The dog collar is fascinating to people, when it doesn't repel. I've got used to being shouted at in the street.

I'm very afraid of being linked with the wrong, rightist, Fascist groups.

Single mommyhood wasn't fashionable in the mid-'70s.

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I'm not doing any fat acting.

I don't go around calling myself a fat girl. It doesn't feel fun to me.

There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be creatures of young-adult or commercial fiction.

I'm not fat. There's a difference between being big and being fat.

The more women grow economically, there will be more allegations against them. If they don't grow, if they are quiet, nobody is going to find fault with them.

Casting couch is not just a man's fault. It is important to say this because we blame the other side always.