Quotes About Stereotype

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

Often when I meet people and say I'm a designer, they say, 'Oh, a fashion designer.' Which is not a bad thing I suppose, a bit groovy.

People have said that to me: They say I have a TV face.

I think the whole thing, boy band, it's a little bit of a dirty word. They say it's not a good thing to be in a boy band. We want to change that. We want to make the boy band cool. It's not just about dancing and dressing the same.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

They say Afghanistan is the worst country for a girl to be born. Hogwash!

There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'

When you've been in the tabloids as a drunken 'It-boy', people automatically assume you're thick.

When I was a boy, I was really thin, small, long-haired. I always looked young. People thought, 'He can't play football.' I used that to my advantage.

I was not a Mouseketeer, but a lot of people think I was.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

I'd much rather people knew me as a good tennis player than as an aboriginal who happens to play good tennis. Of course I'm proud of my race, but I don't want to be thinking about it all the time.

I'm glad to have shown myself able to do other things rather than people thinking, 'Oh, he'll just do the same as his dad.' Dad was a brilliant actor, but it just so happened he was five foot five and a half, fat and bald.

When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.

I do find it slightly offensive that everyone thinks that every New Zealander starred in either 'Lord of the Rings' or 'The Hobbit.'

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

Andy Dick is so gay, he thinks Margaret Cho is funny.

You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.

Im at the point now where if someone thinks of me that way or boxes me in to be being just the child of, I just think that theyre being narrow-minded and not looking at the fact that Im very different from them and dont work with them.

Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.