Quotes About Stigma

There's criticism, and there's calling someone a fridge.

After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

People have their image of you or their ideas about who you are, and it can be frustrating.

Part of the frustration of being bipolar is people don't understand what it feels like.

A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.

Neither my sisters, who were nowhere near, nor I knew depression; we knew bad mood. We didn't know drinking as disease, but as character flaw. Weakness. We didn't know "dysfunctional," but we lived it. We knew that if you were miserable, you brought it on yourself. She taught us.

Albanians don't get dyslexia. It's a disease Americans invented so they won't have to admit their kids are retarded.

Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capable of anything.

It is vital that a company's culture shows a willingness to invest in employee wellbeing with no stigma or penalty attached to prioritising good health.

There are plus-size women who've paved the way - Rebel Wilson, Gabby Sidibe, Melissa McCarthy. I can't wait for the day when I can have a conversation, and it's not about the size of my pants but how I prepared for the role.

Fat bodies are used comically. I respect Rebel Wilson so much, and Melissa McCarthy. I love them both. But so often, I feel like fat female bodies are used as props.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

In the early '90s, my parents weren't really drinking wine. They had a bottle or two laying around, but it had been a stigma where a bottle of wine had to be for a super special occasion. A bottle of wine had to go with a steak. And it was this thing that seemed so distant.

In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.

When I started on 'The West Wing,' that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because movie stars didn't do TV. Now, every movie star is desperate to find their 'True Detective.'

Not only was I an 'X Factor' winner that got dropped by Syco - and when that happens, you're never heard of again - but everyone thought I was a clown.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

If someone tests positive for coronavirus, our sport would be stained forever.

I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.

Thank God we're getting rid of the stigma that women shouldn't have muscles, that if a woman does she looks like a man. I'm so happy we're breaking down those barriers.

To be an entrepreneur in Europe, there is a stigma attached to it. There's a reason why England is known as a nation of shopkeepers. Part of it is the idea that it's better to have a shop and keep it up and running than close the doors and try to do something much more significant.

I don't mean to look scary, it's just kind of what I have to work with. Maybe that's why my tattoos are literally the first thing people Google about me.

The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their self-esteem. They don't think they fit in.