Quotes About Prejudice

If you said, 'I'm giving up smoking,' people would put on a parade. If you said, 'I'm going to eat more healthily,' people would say, 'Good for you.' If it's drinking, the first reaction is, 'That's so boring. You're going to be so boring.'

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

When Western filmmakers look for an Indian they want him to play a snake charmer, a chauffeur or a peanut vendor.

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

It's not easy. I make snap judgments, too, and I start to write people off. And then I start to remind myself of how I'm constantly asking judges not to write people off. And so then I try to resist it.

What we thought brings us a disadvantage, brings us an advantage against the American black rappers, because they look all the same, with their training outfits and sneakers, you know? But we didn't know this, it wasn't calculated.

People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.

President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!

Everyone's come up against a snob or a know-all.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the acting profession. But that wasn't sexism, it was snobbery, which I knew and took very humbly.

There's a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.

There is a little bit of snobbery with casting, and unless you're a really successful comedian like Ruth Jones, you don't get to be in the drama side of things.

Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.

I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.

A lot of people are kind of snobby about garlic powder and onion powder. I happen to love them.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.