Quotes About Stereotype

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.

If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too stupid to get into Eton.

I'm not sure a pretty and stupid man might be the key to a happy relationship.

I was always playing very stupid people, or the fat mate of the main girl.

I'm very much known as being the smiley girl, and unfortunately, lightness can be mistaken for stupidity or someone with no depth.

I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.

Why is there this myth? People say, 'Oh, you are a style icon. You're 'French, French, French.' It's not true, you know; there are stylish people everywhere.

For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.

Where a country lies is a subjective decision and only in part a product of its own desire. Much, if not most, is determined by what others believe about it.

People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance.

I think there's a weird stigma in the TV-film world that theater people can't be funny and understand subtlety, and I think that could not be more wrong.

Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

One of the things I love about the character development in 'Power' is Courtney A. Kemp's subversive use of stereotype.

It's a public service when a gay chick goes lipstick instead of lumberjack.

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.

For all practical purposes "race" is not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth.

An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

Because I'm not a white boy, I'm not white enough for white folks. And because I wasn't born into the middle class, I'm not completely accepted by the mainstream. And sometimes, if you can believe it, I'm not ghetto enough for the mainstream or middle class enough for the ghetto or black enough for white folks!