Quotes About Stereotype

Even when I went out, people had this perception that 'Oh Riya Sen' because they feel what you're on screen, you're the same in real life.

Golf didn't seem like it was for everybody. I didn't grow up with a whole lot of money, and my perception was that golf was for a snootier crowd.

People have a perception of you and that's very difficult to change.

People have ignored me in the past, thinking that I probably had an attitude. And I couldn't break that perception.

I think people have a different perception of me than what I am. I think they get me confused with Lyle Alzado.

Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.

Whatever I do, if people see me in a certain light, then they will always judge me in that light. Their impressions and perceptions will never change.

I'm one of the most popular cabaret performers, and I don't sing a note. And nobody expects me to sing.

I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.

I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

After you have done everything to please a man and he's taken his pleasure with you, all you are for him is a whore, and a whore's daughter.

Barba non facit philosophum

Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.

The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.

Kebawelan banyak kali dianggap wanita sebagai ukuran kelihaian.

Orang jawa kulitnya licin, seperti ular.

Bad wife stays either near or often in the house of her mother

The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.

I am a character actor and one of my characters just happens to be a loud, vulgar woman.

I love that I get to play a black character who's not a stereotype, who is not afraid to be vulnerable, who comes from a loving home situation. I know it sounds stupid, but for me, these tiny, little glimpses into people's lives matter.

I don't think women in India are vulnerable.

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.