Quotes About Stereotype

The Korean word for "Korean" is Hanguk-saram and so they called us gooks.

Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.

Because of my pseudonym Gulzar, which is how I am known, some people think I am a Muslim.

It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me. Because, quite rightly, the impression the American public has of psychologists is, 'You want to know what's wrong with me.'

When you are in the public eye as a person of color, you are given very little room to mess up.

Most Americans think that public health is services for poor people, and since most Americans hate poor people and want all poor people's services destroyed, they hate public health.

You go for an audition, and you meet a director, and you find that they don't want you. You have to have a pull with them: that they understand what you want to bring to it. That you don't want to be the pretty little thing.

It would be great if people could guess right off that I am Japanese-Finnish-American. But then I'd have to be wearing a kimono and pulling a reindeer.

People come to L.A. and they expect to see a ghetto like the projects, but that's not the way it's set up. Inglewood, in particular, is the furthest thing from a ghetto. It's a middle-class community, but it's gotten a bad rap over the years... because of 'Grand Canyon' and 'Pulp Fiction' and other films.

A lot of times, in other films in the past, you see some drag roles that make you go, 'OK we're the punch line again.' You know, someone comes in and they're like, 'Oh is it a man?' that kind of thing.

Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I'm narrow-minded and a purist. I'd never mess with it.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.

Let's be honest: the label of model-daughter-of-celebrity mother is... you know, I don't want to have that label. It's not who I am. It's not my values to go off someone else's name and to be pigeonholed as that. So in a way, that has really pushed me to be more independent.

A lot of people that make films say, 'We need this kind of character. Who's done it before? Get them to do it again.' That is exactly what actors are pushing against. It's kind of a cliche to talk about being stereotyped in that way, but it happens.

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

What puts people off metal is they think it's all nutters and blood. We don't want to be seen that way.

I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.

When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.

I'm five foot three. I don't look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like I'm 12.

If you say you're a football coach, especially with a dude, they're always all over you.