Quotes About Stereotype

It was the first time I'd realised that the giant in 'Jack and the Beanstalk' was an Afrikaner.

Much of my life appeared to be a lesson in not judging books by their covers.

Rachel kept an eye toward the woman, fearing a slap. He looked over, too. He pointed with the scissors. "This is Kahlan. She scared me at first, too. She's awfully ugly, isn't she.

Brewing was often viewed as an appropriate activity for widows, who found it hard to farm land.

I'm not superstitious. I'm a witch. Witches aren't superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

I'm not a lady, I'm a witch.

Silverfish looked down. Oh. Are you a dwarf? Cuddy gave him a blank stare. Are you a giant? He said. Me? Of course not! Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.

She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult . Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said mother, everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said child...

Not much call for a barbarian hairdresser, I expect,' said Rincewind. 'I mean, no-one wants a shampoo-and-beheading.

You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat.

I hate it when a woman lets me down. Gives us all a bad name.

I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet.

I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.

Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.

When I think of the name 'Joyce' I think of a grandma or an old chubby Mrs. Claus.

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

We all know that looks matter. What most of us don't understand is just how much looks matter and how difficult it is for us to ignore a person's appearance when making a social judgment.

Contrary to the popular caricature of him, the Duke of Edinburgh was neither judgmental nor unfeeling.

People will always have judgments, but they don't actually know me.

No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, 'Oh, Julie Adams - 'Creature from the Black Lagoon.'

I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.

I usually played out and out heavies. No one else 'saw' me in any other role. No one else had ever believed I could be anything but a heavy. It was a heavy in a picture with Clara Kimball Young that June Mathis saw me and decided to cast me as Julio. 'There is the man for Julio,' she said, 'He, and no one other.'

It ticks me off to hear people say, 'Hey man, at your age you don't look like you're slowing down a bit.' Like, can I just be a football player? Why does the 33 age have to coincide with me when you talking football?

I can't really say my height has hindered me in the theater, though it really has hindered me in TV. It's just something you have to embrace, your height.