Quotes About Stereotype

One of the things that I've always had fun with is the stereotype 'white man can't jump.' It's followed me along my whole career and it's something that obviously I've tried to disprove many times.

The stereotype is that if a woman doesn't have children she doesn't like children. I really love kids.

The worst insult you can give a professional athlete is to call them soft. And the stereotype out there is that gay is soft.

and presto: you've got the latte libel. The Bobos. The establishment. The blue-state elite. The difference, of course, is that Gold attributed these characteristics to the lazy, denatured rich. Aldrich, Brooks, Coulter, Limbaugh, and the rest simply turn the stereotype on liberals.

Consider, for example, the stereotype of liberals that comes up so often in the backlash oeuvre: arrogant, rich, tasteful, fashionable, and all-powerful. In

While Republicans trick out their poisonous stereotype of the liberal elite, Democrats seem determined to live up to the libel.

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

That men aren't naturally good; but girls are.

I thought, Hell, that's pretty quick for a woman with Lee press-on nails.

I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.

At work, he pretended every woman customer was a floozy with a hard-luck story who only needed a good slapping.

There may be a lot of people out there who don't like me who don't even know me. But there are quite a few people who like me because they know me. I'm not a bad guy by any means. I can't do anything about people hating me for no reason.

They don't call him 'No Drama Obama' for nothing. He's even worse than we thought because he has committed the ultimate American crime, worse than anything he has been accused of so far: He has no sense of humor.

The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.

Normal people don't become stand-up comedians.

The character of the computer whiz is not one that would normally be associated with me.

A lot of times, comedic actors are discriminated against. People just assume they can't do something other than what they do, rather than thinking, 'Oh, wait - doing what they do normally is really hard.'

I didn't want to be classified as a northern actress.

I'm not dangerous, but I have a sharp nose. I will probably be playing bad guys forever because of my face.

I guess I look so straight and normal, nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.

I've been working now for 24 years. That's a long time to be around for playing only one note, and I'm making a damn good living. And if some still think I'm a woman, that's OK, too.

I've always noticed that girls cry way easier than guys do.

I've noticed though that people will always assume you are the character you last played. I guess it's a compliment to playing your character convincingly.

Once something gets noticed and people love you, most of the makers want to put you in the same bracket, feeling this is what the audience would want from an actor. But as an artist, I don't want to be in that space.