Quotes About Stereotype

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

After Chaucer's death, Henry IV offered his position to Christine de Pizan, no doubt hoping that as she was a widow and her only child, her sixteen-year-old son, was effectively a hostage in his household, she could be persuaded to agree. If so, he completely misjudged this redoubtable woman, who had once replied to criticism "that it was inappropriate for a woman to be learned, as it was so rare . . . that it was even less fitting for a man to be ignorant, as it was so common.

Our hero was not one of those Dominican cats everybody's always going on about—he wasn't no home-runner hitter or fly bachetero, not a playboy with a million hots on his jock.

Nuestro héroe no era uno de esos dominicanos de quienes todo el mundo anda hablando, no era ningún jonronero ni fly bachatero, ni un playboy con un millón de conquistas.

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.

I mean, you make it sound like I'm the yeti or something.", Celestra Caine from FADE by Kailin Gow

I'm intimidated by anyone with a British accent.

Men get intimidated by me. They feel I am very high-handed and snobbish.

I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.

I think people think I'm a extrovert but really I'm a introvert.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

I wanted to do action, and it was a bit irritating when people called me a chocolate boy. I can do other films, too.

I have something against Islam.

People sometimes have a bad image of Islam but that is an image of what people are doing with Islam.

There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.

When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.

If Rooney had been Italian, he would have been loved like Francesco Totti was at Roma.

And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.

There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an item girl.

I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't.