Quotes About Stereotype

All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans.

I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

Ah, Milk Duds. The official candy of pissed-off fat women everywhere.

Make-up? What happened? You look almost female." "Thanks. You look almost straight.

You have a college degree? You can barely talk.

I'm a librarian in town,' she began. 'You sure about that?' The words popped out before he could stop them. Annabelle raised her eyebrows. 'Fairly. It's my job and so far no one has told me to go away when I show up for work.' smooth, Stryker, he thought, very smooth. 'I was expecting someone wearing glasses. You know. Because librarians read a lot.' The raised eyebrows turned into a frown. 'You need to get out of the barn more.

I think experienced makes me sound like an aging hooker.

No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a cape, or Elvis Presley without his guitar. Would we even care?

the board believed it would be in everyone's best interest to have a man run the library.

you mixed all four together what you'd get would be sex labelled 'normal

He's a real romantic," said my mother. "Romantics are usually bastards, in case you haven't noticed.

Katherine Anne Dugan had long ago realized that being pretty helped her to be a better librarian, actually stimulating interest in learning and reading. (from The Loveliest Librarian)

I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedian; you're always classed as something else, too, whether that's 'beautiful,' 'pint-sized,' 'larger-than-life' or in my case, 'Hattie Jacques-esque,' 'the giraffe,' 'big.'

There's an intelligent redneck in all of us somewhere.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

To convince another part of the world that Bollywood is not just jokers who break into song and dance was very difficult. I'm literally ploughing the ground and making people understand that Indian actors are not a joke.

As a solo artist, it's so easy to be lumped into a singer / songwriter genre and writing sleepy, sad songs that are very emotionally rich that mean a lot to you, and people just get kind of tired.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'

After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican.' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'