Quotes About Stereotype

Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.

I can't do the conventional heroine's role.

Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?

When you think of Gallant's music and his voice, you don't automatically think, 'Oh, Eric Nam would be great a fit' or 'Hey! Tablo would be an amazing fit.'

I actually think I think better in high heels.

The French aren't known for being hilarious. When I told Parisians I was interested in French humor, they'd say 'French what?'

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

When a man has a black face, suspicion is proof.

It's a queer thing, I thought, to be known as 'Mr So-and-so, the well-known anti-Fascist'. A queer trade, anti-Fascism.

D]iplomats and military men considered Italy nothing more than a geographical name.

They say -- everyone says I'm beautiful !' He managed to preserve his countenance, but his lips twitched slightly. 'Yes, of course,' he replied. 'It's well known that all heiresses are beautiful !

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

'Redneck' has been terribly abused as a term. Where I come from, a redneck was a farmer who worked the fields all day and got his neck sunburned. People made fun of them.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies.

No, I'm not a Republican working in Hollywood, I am a Democrat.

Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.

I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, 'There's the nerd from Harvard.' Then it took 20 years of working in baseball and me actually leaving and going to football for people to say, 'He's the baseball guy.' So maybe at some point I'll be known as a football guy too.

I can't put everyone in the same bracket, but many haven't got over the old Lacazette and the perception that I was a bit of a lazy striker who didn't really work hard for the team. At least, I thought I was working hard, but I didn't really know how to help my team-mates.

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

Certainly in my generation, there aren't enough actors from a working-class background.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.

If you've made it big in Bollywood, such as Kareena Kapoor Khan and Katrina Kaif, and then you do an item song, it becomes a 'guest appearance.' That's how it works. Sadly, that's the attitude of our Hindi film industry.