Quotes About Stereotyping

Anti-Semitism is a second-class racism.

What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.

Although most people on welfare are not Black, many Americans think they are. The American public associates welfare payments to single mothers with the mythical black welfare queen, who deliberately becomes pregnant in order to increase the amount of her monthly check. The welfare queen represent laziness, chicanery, and economic burden all wrapped up in one powerful image.

Little Girl No thanks, I take it black, like my men.

A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are.

When programmers speak of "computer literacy," they are drawing red lines around ethnic groups, too, yet few have pointed this out.

In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.

For Muslims, as a homosexual, I am less than a pig.

I think we try to categorise people, put them in pigeon holes, I think we get into all sorts of difficulties.

People did pigeonhole me.

The industry loves to pigeonhole.

People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.

When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles.

Once you're sort of pigeonholed into something, it's quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a gay character again, but it would definitely have to be the right role.

I'm aware of being pigeonholed in those period drama roles. But, I do love them at the same time.

You get pigeonholed. It's a kind of safety device for people who don't really want to look any further outside of the box, but I'm actually impregnable as far as what people say about me.

We might accept pit bulls personally, but America still doesn't accept them institutionally, where it counts; indeed, apartment complexes and insurance companies are arrayed in force against them.

When I called Clinton a Wall Street puppet, they called me a right-wing extremist. When I said the same about George W. Bush, they called me an anti-war communist. Now that I'm against Obama for the same reasons, mainline conservatives embrace me. When I attack the next right-wing 'savior,' they're gonna call me a communist again.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Hollywood, they make up these Latinos because they have a certain physical type or a certain name or whatever... It's not that easy. It's like me wanting to do a movie with an American actor, and I say, 'Hey listen, I have either Johnny Depp or Carrot Top.'

I get irritated when people ask me if I have met a certain actor or I have bags worth lakhs in my wardrobe.

A lot of 'Star Wars' fans who are specifically Asian never had a character they could dress up like, or they would, and people would always call them 'Asian Rey' or 'Asian fill-in-the-blank.'