Quotes About Stereotype

When you're in the living room every week for nine years as one character, it's hard for some people to see you as someone else.

It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place.

Indians are very intelligent - of that, there is no doubt - but we are not necessarily hard working.

lots of blokes have a Woody Allen sense of humor but look like Woody Allen.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

I've always believed that the concept of the Jewish princess was invented by a Jewish prince who couldn't get his wife to fetch him the butter.

Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.

It starts from the premise that black connotes evil and death in all cultures and hopes to figure out if "these associations influence people's behavior in important ways. For example, does wearing black clothing lead both the wearer and others to perceive him or her as more evil and aggressive? More importantly, does it lead the wearer to actually act more aggressive?

Within any generation, there are always two distinct classes: a handful who accept and embody the assigned caricature, and many more others who are caricatured against their will, simply because they happened to be born in a particular year. It was no different for Generation X. The only dissimilarity is that it bothered them less.

Nobody used to look at George Washington, with his wooden teeth, in his powdered wig, and say, Fashion Victim.

An orange-stained Los Angelina she wasn't. Not yet another bimbo beat hard with a blonde stick.

No, no, I know, it's just—you know, I thought . . ." "Because I have Syrian heritage I hate the Jews?" "When you put it like that, I'm pretty sure I'm a dumb-ass.

Bushmills was a Protestant whiskey. Jameson for Catholics.

We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We would prefer not to have known our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen.

Outwardly, Roy was an obvious figure. If you drew a pair of old brown loafers, two beige elbow patches, a black pipe, and two baggy eyes under heavy eyebrows, the rest was easy to fill out.

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.

We're not gay!Not that there's anything wrong with that.

We're English. There's no cure for that.

Right." He smirked. "The girl with the Irish name who looks about as Irish as I do.

She was well aware that some people—particularly the older guys—thought she'd only been promoted to detective because she was a woman. It was possible they were right. But she'd worked her ass off, too.

That's Chinese, not Japanese

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be.

Put a pair of high heels on a fellow and just look what he was reduced to.