Quotes About Stereotype

I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.

I wanted to prove I wasn't that person everyone wanted to stereotype me. You can slag me off, I talk about my upbringing now and try and do it in a way that inspires others, but I never felt good about it.

People have so many preconceptions about me. I always knew it was going to be an uphill battle.

So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human.

I've always been battling this perception people have of me, this character. It follows me around. 'Bubba the Bear' shows up when I'm checking into a hotel, when I'm on a plane. I can't get upset with people if they're only aware of a small part of my body of work. But inside I do.

Many people in the society get upset when the daughter is born. They think that only a son can take their name forward in the society, but it has been proved that the daughter is not less than the sons.

I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better musicians, they were better athletes, they were not uptight about sex, and they knew how to enjoy life better than most people.

I'm playing my first urban character in 'Thirudan Police.' It's an important film because I'll be breaking the stereotype that I'm only fit for rural characters with this role.

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.

We use the word 'urban' to mean black or Latino, but that's not what the word means. It actually means 'from the city.' I'm not from the city. I'm from the suburbs of Connecticut. I grew up with mostly all white people.

I'm not an urban black person. I'm a country black person.

Even when I meet people, they start talking to me in Telugu, even though I'm a Kannadiga. But my character in Hello Guru Prema Kosame' will change that image of mine. You'll see me as an urban city girl in glamorous clothes.

The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.

Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter they're considered crazy people or something.

Women often don't want to be typecast as the girl that's sad.

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Being an ugly woman is like being a man. You're gonna have to work. Yep.

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.

Guns don't kill people, husbands who come home early from work kill people

I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.