Quotes About Stereotype

I am not as crazy as people think.

We, as black people, we have a lot of crooks.

I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.

I have a very nappy, curly head.

At the end of the day, it just means 'curvy.' That's why I think the word 'plus-size' in the industry is very different from people's mind view of what 'plus-size' really should mean.

I don't want people to just see me as that cute girl in 'Dil Maange More' or 'Wanted.'

A lot of people think of me only as a cute, sexy blonde.

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

Many still believe that conducting political and economic reforms at the same time is not an Asian way. But this is a fairy-tale. We broke that old stereotype by reforming our political, economic and social systems concurrently since 1990.

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

In feature animation, it's kind of taboo to make a movie that's more cartoony. But I never really believed that.

When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.

I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.

I can't be happy if I want to because the media won't let me be. They keep propagating a tacky image of mine. They even make my charity work look like a publicity stunt.

I had been typed in a particular kind of roles. It becomes boring and I feel great to have come out of sexy' tag.

The It-girl tag annoys me.

Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision.

People too often - because it's an easy, lazy tag - dwell on my style of football.

Our industry is quick to judge you and then label you with a tag. I don't want that to happen.

At one stage, I just wanted to play one Test for India. People used to say I was just a T20 bowler, a limited-overs bowler. All these tag lines were doing the rounds but I did want to make a difference.

I was doing a lot of drama until I took the comedy role in the series 'Car 54, Where Are You?,' and I've been tagged as a comedian ever since.

Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

I was tagged early as the prototypical white player, the guy with the intangibles - the smart player, the guy who did all the right things.