Quotes About Stereotype

I love the fact that people don't see the ukulele as a serious instrument. A lot of people see it as more of a toy, and I love that because it just proves that people aren't intimidated by the instrument. They aren't afraid to pick it up.

Frequently over the years, people have thought that they know me. Every character actor has this story, I'm sure. It goes like this: 'Um, do you play soccer?' 'Did you go to such and such church?' 'I knew you when you were with so and so... ' Then I go, 'Well, sorry...' and then they say, 'Wait a minute. Are you an actor?'

I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.

I'm so sick of straight men in boardshorts. It couldn't be more unattractive.

You might be a redneck if you had to remove a toothpick for wedding pictures.

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

Stan Well you can take the girl outta the trailer park but you can't take the trailer park outta the girl.

As the French say, there are three sexes—men, women, and clergymen.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

The Playboy Foundation provided $10,000—and the use of Playboy's offices as an assembly line, where volunteers, mostly senior citizens, were provided with foldout tables and free coffee and sandwiches while building the first of these revolutionary kits. "I took a lot of flak from the women's movement—but too bad," Goddard says. "If it was Penthouse or Hustler, no. But Playboy? Please, give me a break.

?e te? w tym kraju ka?dy kelner jest filozofem i ka?dy filozof kelnerem.

White people say, "It beats digging a ditch"; black people say, "It beats picking cotton.

the smile bent into a smirk. "Tell me, do I look like someone who can't pay my bills?

she looks me up and down like I might be holding her grandbabies hostage in my body.

In response, he gave an almost imperceptible shoulder shrug that said, White folk gonna white folk.

make plus model plus race equaled drug dealer,

Five thousand dollars for a baby doll?" Olive fanned herself with the magazine, lifting her peach-preserve hair. "I guess that's why God invented white folks.

Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired of the stereotype. She likes children just fine, but they're not the standard against which all other accomplishments should be measured. Caring for animals is worthwhile in and of itself, a vocation that need offer no apologies.

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

In Spanish, we have a saying: 'The woman and the frying pan belong in the kitchen.' Ohhhh, I hate it!

Before anyone learns my last name, they always assume I have some type of Latin background in me somewhere. I love it! I think the Latin culture is sexy. It's one of my goals to learn to speak Spanish one day; then I will really be able to fool people!