Quotes About Stereotype

When people accuse me of being really posh, I think, 'Hang on a minute - no, I'm not!'

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

Nobody knows it, but I would be considered posh in Ireland.

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

If I keep doing films like 'The Riot Club' they're going to think I'm a posh git.

I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

I do want people to think of me as an actor, not just a posh actor who does posh parts.

I think it's a great challenge for a bowler to be captain of India and it is not looked at very positively in India for some strange reasons.

Don't judge me by what someone posts on my page on Facebook.

I'd probably be the most unintimidating three-hole hitter in the league at 150 pounds.

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.

There's an assumption if you have any faith you vote this way, you vote that way, or you're this, or you're absolutely a conservative, and those just aren't all true.

Before I did 'How I Met Your Mother,' I was not considered a comedic actress.

After 'Melancholia' and 'On the Road,' I wanted to do a comedy. And I did so many comedies when I was younger, but if you're not consistently in those movies, people don't always think of you for them.

People don't think I can construct a sentence, let alone write a script.

When you come out of the NBA, you get a hundred million-dollar contract and a white woman!

I'm one of those controversial celebs or whatever you want to call it, but I am actually a musician - people forget this.

I love that I am being offered films but I just couldn't do the 'cotton sari-strong woman' role again. As an artiste, there is nothing more I can offer there.

Some people write me off as a bit of a hick from an Essex council estate. I realize that. But I can read.

I've played 'Latin-looking spiv, third from the right' so many times I can't count.

I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'

There's no cowboys in England.