Quotes About Stigma

I think that's one of the reasons women don't tell people when they've had a miscarriage - they think it's their fault.

I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

I have been very fortunate to play parts that have not been just, 'Oh, you need a fat person to play this part.' It's been a secondary thing or we made a feature of it.

I loved seeing a lead female character who isn't perfect and isn't demonized for it.

All my life I've always been so ashamed of being feminine.

I remember being afraid of doing drag when I was younger because I didn't really like my feminine side - most gay guys at some point are told that that's the worst part of you, so that becomes a negative thing.

People get really turned off by feminism.

There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.

I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.

I think people take the word 'feminist' really seriously, and I think people are scared to use that word.

Who laughs less than feminists?

For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.

People like to think of feminists as angry.

When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.

Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.

People talk about me being a firefighter, but I have also been very successful. It annoys me that in this country you get pigeon-holed for certain things.

Whites have to overcome the fear of being called 'racist.'

You don't want someone to think you're from New Hampshire, because who cares about New Hampshire? You're basically just a pass-through.

In a perfect world we'd want gay people to play gay people, but I think that's a good rule of thumb: Whoever gives the best audition should get the part. My problem is getting anybody to hire me for anything other than queens.

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

I've got ADHD, and my whole life, people thought I was some kind of troublemaker because I had all this energy.

We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests that something that is physically wrong in a brain is wholly unrelated to that person's upbringing or experiences in the world, but that is not necessarily true.

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.