Quotes About Stereotype

Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

I don't want everyone to think I'm just the girl who acts.

Argentinian people are always a bit more aggressive!

Not all women want to have children.

I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.

It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else.

If you met me in London, you might be appalled at how English I sounded.

I've been blessed enough where all the rules that come with age don't apply to me. People were saying I was old at 32.

People often don't believe me when they first meet me and I tell them I'm a judoka. I then show them my arms, which speak for themselves.

Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.

I shouldn't say it, but I found that the French can be the most arrogant people in the world if they want to be.

Rich, arrogant, lucky, mollycoddled and stupid. That's always people's preconception.

The elder, Mademoiselle Virginie, was the very image of her mother. Madame Guillaume, daughter of the Sieur Chevrel, sat so upright in the stool behind her desk, that more than once she had heard some wag bet that she was a stuffed figure.

A woman over forty years old!" exclaimed the baroness. "I have heard say in Ireland that a woman of this description is the most dangerous mistress a young man can have.

He unlocked the passenger door and it groaned open. "That door is loud," I said. "And this car is a gas guzzler." "That's the point," he said. "Negro men like big cars. We don't believe in conserving energy. After all we've been through, we deserve to be wasteful.

The highlander's word "furriner" means to him what ???????? did to an ancient Greek.

Americans have never really caught on to the idea of eating sheep. I think they think it's cissy.

People look at you a certain way and somehow you wind up being that way.

A people is what is seen before the eyes or what history reveals; a race is what is looked for and is often assumed." Here was one of the first explicit intimations that race might be an intellectual rather than a biological construct.

In French printer's jargon, cliche (which mimicked the sound of a mold striking molten metal) was a synonym for stereotype, which in turn evolved from the Greek for "solid impression." A stereotype was a printing plate that duplicated typography and that was used by the printer in lieu of the original. So a cliche is a word or phrase used over and over again in lieu of the original.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.

As Josephs and his colleagues point out, 'through its hierarchical ordering of two or more groups, a stereotype is essentially a statement about dominance or status.' When the stereotype of women's inferiority in maths is made salient, a woman doing a maths test is at risk of confirming her lower status in the hierarchy of numeracy.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.