Quotes About Stereotype

I think most people don't know that I really write everything myself. No help. There's nobody in the studio except for me and the engineer. A lot of people don't think I'm a singer. They think I'm a rapper.

People don't really compare me to anybody. They just say I'm a mumble rapper. I'm fine with that. I don't really care.

I am not a rapper. And I believe people in India are not even clear with the whole idea of rap or what it signifies.

Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.

If we met today and you had no idea who I was, you'd just think I was a normal guy. You wouldn't think I'm a rapper.

I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.

I guess rap has such a bad name, because everybody can do it now, and that's probably why people don't want to be considered as rappers anymore, they're not taken seriously anymore. But yeah, rap is definitely the core of what I want to do. But I'm also an artist so I try to do as many things as I can, but I always keep rap in the equation.

I notice, a lot of white rappers sometimes, they'll feel like they have to be, like, almost aggressive.

I went to Dartmouth College so simply by being an Indian-American woman, I was already so statistically interesting. And then the fact that I didn't want to do anything science-related, and I wanted to write comedy plays and act little bit - I mean, I became deeply interesting in college because of how rare that was.

Find me someone who is Nigerian who is always on time for things that aren't work-related, and I will find you a Tyrese quote that makes perfect sense. They might exist, but they sure are rare.

The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.

People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

The normal MGK reaction that everyone expects is for me to be angry and go off, because my history shows that's the type of attitude I'm bringing to the table.

Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

'In the Cut' was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women's writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.

People admire a screen actor if they have theatre skills, but it's looked down upon by the industry as being not a 'real job,' in the way it isn't in New York or the U.K.

I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

I realised you could become fat and bald as a director and still remain employable.

When you're good-looking, I think you usually don't have to work as hard.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.