Stereotype Quotes · Page 5

We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.

— Sam Heughan

“If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification.”

— Michael Lewis

“Kincaid, there's a reason why stereotypes become stereotypes. It's because they're true. - Harold Sacks”

— William Bernhardt

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

— Danny Pudi

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

— Sadie Frost

A stereotype is that all gay men know everything there is to know about the LGBTQ community. We don't.

— Tan France

You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

— Kesha

I've always wanted to break the stereotype of being a model.

— Daria Werbowy

But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people…

— Parminder Nagra

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that…

— Ed Koch

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

— Bill Watterson

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that…

— Chinua Achebe

For us as Asian-Americans, I think the bane of our existence is one stereotype - 'Sixteen Candles,' the Long Duk Dong character.

— Daniel Wu

Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the…

— Chuck D

You know how people say stepmothers are wicked? Well maybe, it's not the mother who is wicked, maybe, it's the child.

— Farahliyana Ray

Legal immigration is a much tougher group of people to stereotype and to identify as potential new Democrat voters.

— Rush Limbaugh

Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy…

— John Piper

The guy, Magic Johnson, built a business empire and you don't do that just because you have a pretty smile. The guy…

— Mychal Thompson

There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write…

— Annia Ciezadlo

You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact,…

— Anonymous

My son plays football so I coach a couple of his teams. My youngest son just started playing last year and I…

— Rakim

[On stereotyping:] It's the mind's way of processing a lot of information quickly. If we had to sort through every bit of…

— Fay Faron

I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the…

— Barack Obama

Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church…

— Eddie Gibbs

When women negotiate they are often viewed as pushy, but if you think about the way women are viewed at large: we…

— Jessica Bennett

My being Indian is possibly the biggest thing that influences my stories. Not just in terms of settings - most of the…

— Vandana Singh

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no…

— Christopher Lasch

“Prejudices emerge from the disposition of the human mind to perceive and process information in categories. “Categories” is a nicer, more neutral…

— Carol Tavris

The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess.…

— Valerie Solanas

“When you fear you will confirm a negative stereotype, it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy not because the stereotype is true, but…

— David McRaney

Millennials are an easy group to identify in terms of their appearance and are therefore highly subject to being stereotyped. When a…

— Chip Espinoza

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason. The stereotypes of feminists…

— Jessica Valenti

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

— Virginia Woolf

The stereotype is that if a woman doesn't have children she doesn't like children. I really love kids.

— Kathy Burke

If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

— Jason Bateman

There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

— Iggy Azalea

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

— Al D'Amato

I don't want to be a stereotype; I want a character that's aspirational.

— Priyanka Chopra

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

— Paul Merton