Quotes About Stereotype

I don't know what it is about me and this cop thing, but I get a lot of cop offers. Everyone always assumes that I'm someone on the force, but as long as they are paying me, I will play a cop until the day I die.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.

It harms me when people say I am 'non-mainstream' or 'non-commercial' actor. I try to fight off such labels.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

I think that I am misunderstood because people perceive me to be a certain way because I am generational. They expect me to be entitled and expect me to have things early on. I think people misconstrued that honestly.

I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view.

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

Nobody at school would have expected me to be involved in anything that might have been perceived as cool. I was trying to make people laugh all the time, but my dad was the headmaster and I was quite swotty.

Not that I am hugely working class, but in the U.K. I'm always perceived, casting-wise, as being working class.

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

My brother is working to change the perception of Chinese food in America.

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.

I don't think anyone has a bad perception of me. Just a limited one. Everyone thinks I pretty much sit around and talk about Jesus all the time. But I'm normal. I'm just a guy. Yeah, I love Jesus and do things a bit different, but I have the same conversations and share the same thoughts as anyone else.

I have learned already that you have to work against people's perception as they want to box you in very quickly.