Quotes About Stereotype

My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

I'd taken the bull by the horns by liberating myself and creating a career. It took guts - it was scary and chancy - but they discounted me as empty-headed: some little piece of fluff without any brain that happened to come along.

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

Some people will never take Madonna seriously - just as many never took Marilyn Monroe seriously. Novelty images - especially that of a sex symbol - are hard to erase.

A lot of people, even if they know what VR is, see it as this tool to go in your basement and play Halo.

When we began to tour, no one expected me to be a part of the band, so I used that as a tool, and would start the set off-stage or in the audience, as a surprise, because no one expected this little girl to get up and rock the way I do.

My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

Working class people vote Tory because they think it makes them look a bit posh.

I heard one woman say to another in the queue at a book signing: 'I shouldn't be buying this. He's a former Tory MP, you know.'

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

I dont think anyone is going to toss me into a classical show.

Maybe there's a perception of me as grumpy old bugger who suffers from depression. It's a total misconception. I don't think of myself as any grumpier than the next person. I'm not even grumpy first thing in the morning.

The fact that I have such a problem that people... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing.

we've been indoctrinated to believe that the higher the IQ, the more likely one is to succeed in life.

seeing the way his trousers clung to those most English parts.

I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

Vans are the vehicles of murderers. Serial Killers. Rapists. Thieves. Nothing good ever happens in a van. Police should be allowed to arrest van drivers without cause. The van is the cause, asshole.

He'd never liked tea. It seemed somewhat ridiculous to him, to interrupt his day with miniature cakes and dry, crustless sandwiches, and fragile china that always seemed about to snap in half between his fingers. Tea, Kimber reasoned, was a feminine invention, ruled by females of a certain type: ruffled, beribboned, and iron-willed.

I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.

I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

were trying to tell the dumb blonde to close her mouth, but the woman clearly took her hair color very seriously.

As soon as Tara looked at the skull-and-barbed-wire tattoo showing beneath the sleeve of Flynn O'Mara's tight t-shirt, she flashed on a jail cell. Bummer. His Dad's in jail