Quotes About Stereotype

I wouldn't be in a huge hurry to go back to Kansas. It was just bizarre. There's a lot of very, very heavy set people who believe in whatever they were told, because they didn't seem to get out very much or be interested in leaving where they were. They just didn't seem that curious, and I find that a little hard to deal with.

I don't know why people always think of the Kennedys as a Boston family.

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

Some think I do nothing but drive a Bentley around and hang out with Kim.

People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.

I made it quite clear that I want to be female-friendly. I don't want to be too sexualised because a woman in a kitchen is already a loaded image.

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.

I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

I was part of a very uncool group. It was a group that liked classical music. They were known as the Music School Gang or, less charitably, the Poof Gang.

Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.

Nobody in England knows the real Luis Suarez.

Actually, for me, I really love to do action movie. You know, most people, they know, they thought that I am a martial artist. I don't know why, but I love to do kung fu movie, you know?

He was never a kung fu guy. Now, he's Mr. Kung Fu. Oh, man. Even Chow Yun-Fat gets typed!

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

I don't like the intellectual label.

Nobody taught me to play bottleneck. I just saw it and taught myself. I got an old bottle and steamed the label off, put it on the wrong finger, I basically did everything wrong until I met some of the Blues legends early in my career who taught me another way. I didn't have anyone to tell me women didn't play bottleneck.

Everybody has always put this on me, this label, that I'm not a very good defensive catcher. To me, I don't see it that way.

Because we are Nashville-based and predominately a country label, people obviously think of us in that way, and that's fine.

'Nice' is not a common label for comedians, but it is for Canadians. I like it.

A lot of people label me as not a defender for some reason. I don't know why.

It was not easy to get rid of that 'tv actor' label.