Quotes About Stereotype

The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

In a country so steeped in the myth of classlessness, in a culture where we are often at a loss to explain or understand poverty, the white trash stereotype serves as a useful way of blaming the poor for being poor.

She may have been a brainless female for being out in a storm that night

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground, and swish my tail–none of which is easy.

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

Guns don't kill people, dads with daughters do.

My perception of a professional gambler has always been a positive one.

I look more like a professional golfer than I do an NFL football player.

What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image.

If you say to a group of women professors, 'Close your eyes and think of a professor,' what they will see is a guy. I will. And I'll stop myself and think, 'Hey, hang on, what am I doing here?'

The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.

There's still, dare I say it, a cultural propaganda against the Irish, that we are, as women, 'feisty.' I hate that word.

This profession, I don't know why, you're supposed to be so serious and just be so proper.

I don't have the proportions for 'hood hot.'

Do I recognize that I've been labeled as a prosperity preacher? I recognize that.

A lot of times in films, the protagonist is either the leader of the group or the nerd of the group. I've never identified with either of those things.

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.

A lot of times we make God to be this protagonist to our hope and our joy, and to be this old, grumpy man with this long beard and white robe. That is so counterintuitive to the heart of God.

I'm never what anybody envisions as the prototype of a character. My looks are just odd enough so that I'm just not what people think of.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.

I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.

When people first meet me, they think I'm going to be a mean guy or something. I guess I just need to prove that you can't judge a book by its cover.