Quotes About Stereotype

I knew that the only way to get noticed would be by doing something that was not expected of me. I was sure I wouldn't get noticed if I continued to play the heroine in films like 'Chashme Baddoor.'

I feel like a lot of people in the hip hop world don't take me seriously as a rapper, and I feel that first-and-foremost I came up as a rapper before I started singing. All a lot of people know from me is 'Cupid's Chokehold,' and they don't scratch the surface and see beyond that dude who sings the song about his girlfriend.

Your average Republican member of Congress, if you played a word association game with them and said, 'Latino,' they're going to respond 'illegal immigrant,' as opposed to 'sergeant major' or 'surgeon' or 'professor.'

People in New York are surprised when I open my mouth.

English people are always surprised I'm English.

I think people will be surprised to find that I'm not as much of an idiot as they think I am. I'm not a real moron.

I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.

British people are surprised that I'm British!

Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.

For 'Pariah,' people were surprised Kim Wayans was there, but comedians have a dark streak; they're comedians for a reason.

He looked durable. Most fat men do.

But explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.

It's funny – you Irish are so like the Serbs.

I can say with confidence that many black males are both lazy and irresponsible. This view isn't popular with problem profiteers who

The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, I think, therefore I am: Americans do not think, yet they are.

Just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball, or even that I want to.

A woman can run faster with her skirt up than a man can with his pants down.

It's always sad when someone dies of a cliché.

expected him to look like a cross between Colonel Sanders and Foghorn Leghorn.

He meant the older blonde. 'She looks local.' She had the unmistakably trashy, bleach-blond air of a town-bred girl. Fake wallet aside, Allison Spooner appeared to be several rungs up on the social ladder. It didn't jibe that the two would be friends. 'Maybe Spooner had a drug problem?' Lena guessed. Nothing crossed class lines like methamphetamine