Quotes About Stereotype

Often you get pigeonholed because of the way you look.

You get pigeonholed. You accept it or you fight it. I've accepted it.

If I'm pigeonholed, it's that people think I play sweet-natured ne'er-do-wells. There are worse fates than that in Hollywood.

When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles.

I find it funny that I'm a pin-up.

I just want people to know that I'm a good person, and I'm not a thug like everybody thinks I am.

I've felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from 'Misfits'.

It's unfortunate that all business gets painted as wanting to oppose the environment and slow change.

No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.

I am sending a memo to every man in the world: just because you make an effort with your wardrobe doesn't make you a wuss.

The stereotype of New Yorkers is that we're people who avoid warm human interaction, we're always in too much of a rush to enjoy simple things, and that we're just generally rude.

When you think of the warm grandmotherly type of character, you don't think of Elaine Stritch.

I think people have a warped sense of who I am.

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

Adult fantasy gets a bad name. You think of Xena - Warrior Princess. If you don't do it expensively, it becomes tacky and you end up just appealing to 45-year-old single men.

'Star Wars' is for nerds and virgins.

I am absolutely an Ulsterman and I am reminded of that everywhere I go. I can't shake that in Dublin and I can't shake that in London - they are wary of us in both capitals.

I'm not the king in my own house. I have to wash the dishes and take out the trash and say, 'Yes, baby.' I'm 6-foot-5, but I kind of walk around hunched over.

I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes it.

She looks just as I imagined. Scuzzy blonde hair, blemished skin, mean eyes. A walking, sentient yeast infection.

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

Arabia, like Ireland, is mostly a country in a movie.

If I tell you that Mrs. Robbins had bad teeth and looked like a horse, you will laugh at me as a cliché-monger; yet it is the truth. I can do nothing with the teeth; but let me tell you that she looked like a French horse, a dark, Mediterranean, market-type horse that has all its life begrudged to the poor the adhesive-tape on a torn five-franc note - that has tiptoed (to save its shoes) for centuries along that razor-edge where Greed and Caution meet.

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.