Quotes About Stereotype

It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.

A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.

People thought that I had all the money in the world and that I was this little perfect princess posing with her hand on her hip and her blonde hair and her curls.

After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'

I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

Ariel is the most boring Disney princess.

People think I look like a P.E. teacher or the principal.

Every single interview I have ever done on TV or in print says I'm a Muslim.

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

People talk about what I did in my private life more than if I'm good at football. 'Oh yeah, he was good, but I don't like him because of this.' But you don't know me! Know me as a footballer.

People have always assumed that I am privileged. And that has been a problem sometimes. When I first started modelling, and I was schlepping around London with no money, I found it rather irksome that people thought I had a private income when I didn't.

I feel privileged to have grown up in Germany so it was a heavy blow for me to be portrayed as somebody who isn't integrated and who doesn't live his life according to German values.

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar and has lots of money and lots of power. That's not what a producer is and, if it ever was what a producer was, it certainly hasn't been for a long time.

I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.

It's a hindrance in trying to get a serious acting role. The minute a producer has a script and my name comes up, they immediately think of 'Playboy,' 'Hee Haw,' 'Fantasy Island' and 'Love Boat.'

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.

Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.

I know people say that we are a load of beer drinkers but we are far more professional these days. These critics should come and have a go at playing darts if they think it is so easy.

Even if I do get stereotyped, I would like to think that it is more of a challenge because if you are given one character and asked to play in 10 different ways, it says more about me as an actor.

Staten Island is like a different world. If you're from Staten Island, you're like not from New York, you're from Staten Island.