Quotes About Prejudice

I hate being a blonde.

I can't stand the assumption that I'm blonde and a bit stupid.

I think as a blonde person with make-up on, you're automatically the punchline to the joke.

America thinks if you're fat, you're stupid. That's great. I want them to keep thinking that. Let them keep on thinking that because the truth is, the expectations are blown away even more when you realize what I'm saying and doing.

Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

Do people think women from Bollywood aren't smart?

People just never saw me beyond my looks. Being good looking sometimes works against you in Bollywood.

In Bombay, people usually tend to cast you in roles that you've played before. Even though they may consider you to be a talented actor, they just think it's 'safer' to have you play the same kind of roles over and over again.

A woman is never going to get to be Bond or Doctor Who. That will never happen.

As soon as I would say I'm from Boston, people would just say, 'Naaaah!'

It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.

The bourgeois are other people.

People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

I think most people write from what they see in their own world, which is maybe why we so often see an African-American woman as the best friend, or the one you bring in when you need some sass. It's like we're put in a box.

It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.

I used to laugh at MMA and say 'do you know what a boxer would do to an MMA guy?' and then I got educated on the truth.

People will sometimes put each other in boxes and have biases toward one another because of what they look like or where they come from or who they are. But ultimately, it's up to us to decide who we are.

People love to put human beings or actors in boxes.

People only go by looks. If you have big breasts it doesn't mean that you are dumb.

First off, it's a bit of a tired old chestnut that if a woman is pretty than she can't be bright. God what are we in, the 19th century?

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Americans assume all British people have at least one servant.

Nobody wants to admit it, but they send the worst teachers to The Bronx.