Quotes About Stereotype

The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage and playing the same time. It's old hat!

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem.

I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?

There's been so much media about me being a surfer dude and a lot of other jobs. I guess it's time to prove myself, to let the people know, heck, I've a brain.

I was on the highway - I saw the scariest thing in the world, man. I saw an Asian driving an SUV. Really, I just drove my car right into the guardrail, figured I'd save him some time.

I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'

I have been thinking-- He chuckled. Always a dangerous thing for a woman to do, he said.

just because a mage wears the black robes does not make him evil.

Riverwind: Why is it that you are called half-elf and not half-man? Tanis Half-Elven: According to humans, half an elf is but part of a whole being. Half a man is a cripple.

When people feel they know who to blame or to snicker at, they seldom feel the need to know more.

I am afraid the English have always loathed their soldiers except in times of peril

They remain, by definition, so far as the stereotype goes, odd, remote, reputed to be borderline autistic, and generally opaque to anyone outside their own tribe—They are mutants, born with abilities far beyond those of normal humans. The late M.I.T. professor Joseph Weizenbaum identified and described the species back at the dawn of the digital age, in his 1976 book Computer Power and Human Reason:

What happens if you walk into a church and try to find out what a man looks like?

The least likely person you'll see in church is a single twentysomething male. He is as rare at church as a vegan at a steak house.

It is a sad fate for a people to be defined for posterity by their enemies.