Quotes About Stereotype

It's a misconception that singers in Punjab use music as a backup in case their acting fails. For me, singing is the front, it's not the backup, it was acting that happened by chance.

At the end of the day, when people say, 'Oh, she's an industry plant,' I'm like, 'No, I just have representation, like every single other artist you listen to.' I'm not the first person to get a manager.

Every single person you can think of called me Paper Boi.

Every single person in the Chicago independent scene said, 'You've got to be a bad guy. You're a Muslim. We're gonna make money. We're gonna call you Sheik Abdullah something. You're gonna wear a turban.'

I'm not just a chick singer who sings high all the time.

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

I always wanted to be known as an actor who sings and not a singer who acts.

If you believe a black cat is bad luck, people think you're crazy, but plenty of times, if I see a black cat down my street, I turn around and go the other way. Even if I'm late. I'll be late for the airport and be in a limo, and if I see a black cat, I'll be like, 'Sir, you have to turn around and go down the next street.'

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

I never looked at myself as the fat sister. Sometimes I would beat people to the punch and say, 'Oh I'm the fat, funny one,' because that's what people would say about me. But I never really thought that.

I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.

It used to get my back up because people would only say 'he does well for his size' and it's like, forget the size, I do well because I do well.

Everyone has got a perception of what a footballer is and, because I am a certain size, that I can only play one way - as a battering ram.

I was raised on an estate in an inner city school where people had a go about my size, people saying I am too big to play football - which still happens today - and I used that to inspire me.

The public doesn't care about my size. It's just something for the media to talk about.

The label 'wife of the prime minister' is like a giant signboard pointing at my head from a Monty Python sketch. But I am not Mrs. Prime Minister. I'm a human being.

Even in comedy, I'm always the straight guy, which is okay because that's a skill. But it would be nice to get out of that box.

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

If you don't look at my skin color and we just go play basketball, you're not going to say I'm a white kid that can just shoot.

Funny, I think that the only reason I'm compared to Prince is because of my skin color.

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.

No one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it.