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Quotes About Stereotype

I think more than anything, as a comedian, I grow tired of the unoriginality of 'crazy cat lady' jokes. It's a hacky joke based on an already-played-out stereotype.
~ Iliza Shlesinger
If you see my record I'm not a stereotype killer striker.
~ Ryan Babel
I like being feminine, it's my way of not conforming to the stereotype that if you're a racing driver you don't care how you look.
~ Susie Wolff
It's often been said that politics in Islington, in many ways, begins and ends with housing, and it's not hard to see why. Despite the borough's image of exclusivity - the stereotype that it's all Georgian squares and cappuccino bars - the reality is much more complex.
~ Emily Thornberry
I really don't want to be a stereotype.
~ Goldlink
This stereotype as Marcus Mariota as a spread quarterback that just runs read options all the time, that's ridiculous.
~ Jon Gruden
We need to overcome the stereotype that genders aren't fluid.
~ Barbie Ferreira
I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with empathy and no judgment.
~ Mary Gauthier
When I look at myself, I'm not a big man - I'm a guard. I can do everything on the basketball court. You can name it - pass, post up, shoot the ball, bring the ball up, being a playmaker - so I'm excited to break that stereotype.
~ Joel Embiid
I think there's definitely a stereotype of white privilege, and that stereotype gets expanded to mean rich, not oppressed, not suffering, et cetera. And yes, it's a misperception.
~ Rachel Dolezal
Of course, people have tried to stereotype me... But it's very short-lived if you realise that you're only as new as your newest film... You have to look beyond the period of initial reactions and recognise that there's a bigger body of work and an effort to do something bigger.
~ Kalki Koechlin
I don't want to perpetuate a stereotype. I don't want to take Asian representation backwards two steps. I don't want to be part of the problem.
~ Jessica Henwick
One stereotype I get a lot as an Asian actress is that you're playing the model minority - that Asians are the best, that they're perfect and positively moral all the time.
~ Jessica Henwick
People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It's a stereotype put on me for a long time because I'm African-American, and I'm a dual-threat quarterback.
~ Deshaun Watson
From a moral point of view, it is wrong... to smear or stereotype minority communities, to pretend or give credence to the idea that the actions of a minority within a community are somehow representative or the fault of the majority of members of that community. That is the very definition of bigotry.
~ Mehdi Hasan
In mainstream media, everything gets turned into a stereotype of ourselves.
~ Roy Choi
I am the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a Boston-based studio that's an industry leader in making games for women. We are passionate about creating narrative games for the avalanche of new consumers who don't fit the old gamer stereotype.
~ Brianna Wu
We have to stop this stereotype that for girls it's about being in pink and horse riding. We need to teach kids to think outside the box, to dare girls to be different.
~ Susie Wolff
I want to break the stereotype that when an actress becomes a mother, she can only do certain type of roles.
~ Richa Pallod
For marriage, yes, people always had their opinions of, 'Oh, you're too young,' because it's become a stereotype, for some reason, for people to get married later in their 20s.
~ Gabby Barrett
I was never a playboy, you know? But it's easy to say that because it's just a stereotype. 'OK, this boy did college so he must be a playboy.'
~ Demian Maia
It's really hard once you do reality to kind of get out of that stereotype. I'm hoping to break that.
~ Shanna Moakler
While the reigning stereotype is that Republicans are opposed to gay rights, growing Republican support in state-by-state fights belies this perception.
~ Margaret Hoover
I know the fact I've worked continuously since drama school means I fit a stereotype - the ingenue.
~ Phoebe Fox