Stereotype Quotes - Page 3

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.

I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

Stereotypes, I want to say, have to be thought of not just as these invidious, bad things that we could get rid of, but as images that we cannot get rid of, that we have to live with.

I ended up doing amazing things with my life; I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be.

This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

The reliance on stereotypes is in part the result of a structural problem within the media. Most newspapers have a business beat, with a number of highly trained journalists who know how to cover companies, trading, the markets and so on. But almost none have labor reporters anymore, and to my knowledge, none have full-time poverty-beat correspondents. And all of this helps to render invisible the lives and the life stories of tens of millions of Americans.

That Indians are lawless people, I would change that because it's probably the most harmful stereotype.

We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.

I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man.

There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.

When somebody else calls you exotic, exotic is a box - it's the stereotype of snake charmers and face jewelry. You're just that stereotype. But I don't get offended anymore. I used to get offended by things that were said to me, or how I was seen. Now I educate. If I get pissed off, I'll educate in a sassy way. Other times I educate in a Gandhi-like way. You know - I have my moods.

My family brought me up to be very assimilated and accepting of everyone. But I do get frustrated when I see other Asians who behave in a way that reflects a stereotype.

And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh.

The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all you have to go on are your preconceptions and your stereotypes and whatever else, but gradually as you get to know them, they change. They become more three-dimensional, and you start to see them in layers.

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

I've never liked to play stereotypes.

Every character when born is a stereotype.

It's really rare to get a teenage role that resembles something of what it's like to be a young person, that isn't a cliché or a stereotype.

I've just been really lucky to not be too much of a stereotype.

I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason.