Quotes About Stereotype

I remember when I was younger, I read that Jay-Z was 33 and I was just like, 'Damn! This dudes really still goin for it?' It's just so rare that you see any rapper over 30 doing anything interesting.

I remember when I was retiring I said to my kids 'I promise you I'll never put on weight' because people always think footballers retire and eat and drink and put on loads of weight.

Even though half of my stint in 'Balika Vadhu' was positive, people majorly remembered me for the negative part I played initially.

People have been afraid of me because of the parts I played. Nobody remembers that I was the dad in 'Free Willy.'

As far as celebrity, people don't stop me on the street and know who I am. It's more like, 'Doesn't she remind you of so-and-so's ex-girlfriend?' It's always somebody's ex-girlfriend. Somebody ex-girlfriend who's 'crazy.'

I'm still just a loud-mouth girl from Michigan. I thought I might've grown out of that, but people are always reminding me that I haven't.

I'm either thought of as ethereal or fiery. And maybe that's the interesting thing about red hair: there's that fiery Renaissance connotation and the ethereal.

My husbands all repeatedly said the same thing - that I was not a very passionate woman.

'Livin' la Vida Loca' is not Latin music. It does not represent Latin music.

'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

It's kind of hurtful people associate Republican with being racist and the last thing I want from the very people I am fighting for.

I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away.

It's hysterical that I'm going to marry a garbage man.

Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

My dad has blond hair, my grandmother has blue eyes. My daughter has blue eyes and blond hair. So it is pretty funny to me that I'm so heavily identified as an Asian person.

People say you get identified with a role, and you get stereotyped, but I haven't found that to be the case.

The role that I played in 'Gaana Bajaana' was that of a tomboyish girl who identified with the guys. There was nothing feminine about her.

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.

I just didn't want people to think, Here's this idiot Danish actor who made up this name to get attention. It's really quite common here, and I've had it all my life.

This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.