Quotes About Stereotype

I'm not trying to prove anything. People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie. They don't really see the skills and the kind of player I am. That's why I get downgraded so much, because of something off the field.

I was told 'you can't play for England, you're at Bolton.' I proved them wrong.

It becomes difficult for a woman to become part of a lobby without eyebrows being raised. Even if she has proved herself with sheer stint of hard work, it will still be difficult for her to be accepted.

In Hollywood it seems that you're considered gay until proven otherwise.

Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents. --Cousin Jasper

From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

Most English gentlemen at this time believed that they had a particular aptitude for endearing themselves to the lower classes.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created - nothing.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Später werden ihr die Leute sagen, sie soll nicht mit Zigeunern spielen, so wie sie ihr sagen, sie solle nicht alleine trampen, oder sich das Gesicht von einem Hund ablecken lassen, aber sie achtet sowieso nicht besonders darauf, was ihr die Leute sagen.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.

I can't wait until I get to play the fat guy in the office.

I don't consider myself a fat cat. Don't make me out to be a fat cat.

Us Danes have amazing pastries, but we're not a fat nation.

I'm not fat. There's a difference between being big and being fat.

Being typed is not important. For a while vou are typed as one thing. You get out of that. Then you are typed as something else. You can break away from everything except comedy. It's fatal to be typed as a comedian. You can't get out of that.

I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.

I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre.

I grew up as an athlete doing judo, so I didn't really have a conventional, feminine body type.

I think I was aware when I started doing stand-up, especially on my own, that, yeah, I'm getting up on stage, and I'm a woman, and I dress in a sort of typically feminine fashion.

As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.

I think people take the word 'feminist' really seriously, and I think people are scared to use that word.

I don't like that word: feminist.