Quotes About Stereotype

I've shattered every negative stereotype people had about me.

It was good because it helped me get where I'm at today, but then people stereotype and say we don't want to use her because she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'.

When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.

I'm American; I was born and raised in America, and I don't want to fake who I am to fit a stereotype.

And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.

Here's the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the funniest, most self-deprecating people I know. And it's rare to find a Jew that is actually offended by comedy about them.

I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.

I think that women out there should just be happy with how they look, and they shouldn't really try to conform to any stereotype. Just be happy and, hopefully, healthy.

I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits.

People hear traditional jazz and think it's stale, where there are so many ways it can be opened up. With New Orleans and old-time grooves, there's no limit in what can be done with that. I want to break the stereotype of what traditional jazz is.

I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.

I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.

Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.

It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.

As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.

Quarterbacks can still have good bodies. I'm always conscious of the stereotype. I want to change what people think. There's a lot more to it than what you see on the field.

The way you speak should not determine your intelligence. I should be able to say 'lit,' and you still know I'm intelligent. I should be able to say 'turn up,' and that doesn't take away from my intelligence. I wanted to break down that stereotype a little bit.

It is very difficult for us to establish identity in films. It is not easy to break through your stereotype image from television and form a new identity on the big screen.

Strong is beautiful. I want to shatter that stereotype that strong isn't beautiful, because it absolutely is.

There's a whole stereotype of the jazz musician that's into poetry and reading and metaphysics and all that stuff. Really, it's a sign of someone who's searching, whose mind is open, looking for answers. Whatever ideas you may come up with, the beautiful thing is the search.

This industry is quick to stereotype. People had started talking about how I was primarily being part of women-centric movies. I didn't want to be labelled as part of a mahila morcha.

I wasn't like the rest of the kids. I was an artist. Living in a black society, when you're raised around a bunch of boys who plays sports and chase girls, there's this perception of masculinity that's super hard to fit into. I wasn't the stereotype of that like a lot of my peers were.

I know that when you do similar kind of films, one after the other, people tend to stereotype and say, 'She is only good at this.'