Quotes About Stereotype

I always prided myself on trying to break the stigma of the 'dumb jock.'

Even though you picture Russians as stoic, their language is really poetic.

I even steal bases. I hear all the time that I'm slow, but hey, I have 66 stolen bases.

My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

If you label someone lazy or a liar, he'll feel like that for life. Worse, guys lose motivation to change when we feel like your perception of us is set in stone.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'

For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate.

What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

I don't know why, but if I was walking down the street, the same people who called me freak would probably ask for a picture. It's a real strange thing.

When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.

As a Muslim, I like to watch Fox News for the same reason I like to play 'Call of Duty.' Sometimes, I like to turn my brain off and watch strangers insult my family and heritage.

Infielder Craig Counsell played parts of sixteen years in the major leagues despite looking like a librarian,

It was possible we looked out of sorts. And of course we were aware by now that Italians don't drive bright orange cars (or bright yellow or green cars for that matter) and that the owners of such cars are looked upon with a certain amount of condescension and immediately understood to be Germans, an epithet more or less synonymous with bad taste.

photography was "a circus kind of business, and unfit for a gentleman to engage in.

no stereotype can explain why and how, in the six months after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a technique to kill Jews in large numbers was developed and some one million Jews were murdered.

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

I took great offence at a journalist who called me blokeish. I have always seen myself as metrosexual and in touch with my feminine side.

I get offered a lot of parts where I want to say, 'Why don't you just hire a model? Don't hire an actor.' I'm trying to convince people I'm a real actor, not some mannequin.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.

I did tell the census man I was white, and I'm telling you, I started getting offers for the black American Express card in the mail.