Quotes About Stereotyping

It is not the case that I can predict your views knowing that you are a white male. I cannot predict your views if you are a black female, and it is height of both arrogance and condescension to think that somebody can be type casted on the base of.

I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.

The problem with the film industry is that once one starts out as a villain, subsequent offers are those of similar roles.

My question is why does every African American fighter have to be the villain?

I've been going through immigration all my life, and I've been stopped for traffic violations by cops, and they get much more curious about me than the regular guy. The moment they hear my accent, things get a little deeper.

Whenever some kind of mass shooting or any other kind of violent activity takes place, we kind of hold our breath until we are sure that no Muslim was involved, because we know that these incidents will be treated differently if a Muslim is involved versus if somebody of another background is involved.

I've kind of given up trying to evaluate college guys, especially guys from Virginia, just because of my bias.

When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa.

People have a limited vision. While abroad actors such as Halle Berry have done many positive roles, we still associate short hair with negative characters.

Immediately the stranger would bend over toward me and ask, "Does he lip-read?" as if Dad had suddenly become as inanimate as a cigar store Indian.

We'll talk to them in Spanish and if they don't understand us, we'll say it louder and slower, and shake our heads because how stupid can you be not to be able to speak such a simple language.

Women's voices always rise two octaves when they talk to cleaning women or cats.

Besides, if you lump them all together because they're German, how does that makes you any different from the way they lump us all together just because we're Jews?

The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else.

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

If people don't want to cast you, they give you this stupid excuse that it's because you don't fit into a certain image.

She thought briefly of one police force in a neighboring state, some years back, which without a second thought had for many years classified people murdered in its jurisdiction as "male victim," "female victim," and "prostitute.

When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another.

If you act too young, people say you're going through your second childhood. If you act too old, they think you're getting senile and smother you with kindness.

In the stores downtown we're always followed around just because we're brown.

Mexican right-wing talk radio wants a fence built on their southern border to keep out those damned Hondurans and Salvadorans and Guatemalans. I heard a radio host in Guadalajara decry these "aliens." It seems Hondurans want to take Mexican jobs. Want to steal health care, get an education. They don't share the proper language, and they carry disease and lower the standard of living and want to steal social security benefits. Rushito Limbortinez in the house!

Our stereotyping societies force us to feel more alone. They stamp masks on us and isolate out real selves. We all live in two worlds: the old comfortable man-centred world of absolutes and the harsh real world of relatives. The latter, the relativity reality, terrifies us; and isolates and dwarfs us all.