Quotes About Stereotype

I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord.

On the street, people think I'm a guitar-carrying band member with a rock-n'-roll lifestyle, but the closest I have ever got to being one is probably lip-synching.

I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.

I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

I try not to buy into that whole, crazy 'you are what you drive' mentality here, but I wouldn't want to be seen in a Ford Fiesta - you know what I mean?

I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

My mom tried to get me on ballet. 'Walter Payton did it! Walter Payton did it!' I'm just not messing with ballet.

Schoolkids - black and white - would call me Kunta Kinte as a cuss. If ever my hair was particularly messy, if ever I looked scruffy at school, I would be called Kunta Kinte. My first impression was that it was bad to be African and bad to be associated with him.

Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it.

Heavy metal these days is what I call wimpy.

When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part.

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

For me, I'm an American and I'm a Mexican. I live here. And it hurts me the way a lot of people talk about Mexicans when I know we're all about hard work and dedication.

I'm not the face of Mexico.

My mother thinks Mick Jagger is a foreign car.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

Looking back, it amuses me that people imagined that I was a very brash, fearless, redheaded young revolutionary when I was in fact a very insecure, mousy-haired, middle-aged man with a deep fear of authority.

Whether you're a dwarf, whether you're a midget, it's all branding.

Mike Dukakis, you know, he can't get a job mowing lawns.

'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

Sadly, I don't think books ever sell based on your name alone - the minute we make an assumption like that is the minute it all goes horribly wrong!