Stereotype Quotes · Page 5

I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

— Elisha Cuthbert

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - it turned little people into crass stereotypes.

— Jedediah Bila

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

— Haruki Murakami

Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.

— Carolina Herrera

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

— Kelley Armstrong

I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.

— Wesley Snipes

It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.

— John Amos

Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

— Kara Walker

One of the things I love about the character development in 'Power' is Courtney A. Kemp's subversive use of stereotype.

— Lela Loren

Accept people, don't stereotype people. Don't think because right now they're driving a cab, they're not going to have a master's degree…

— Isabel Coixet

It's not so much about powerful women. In some cases, there are stereotypes about women. I often don't hear men talked about…

— Anna Wintour

“The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

I am an actor who turned hero at age 32, after many years of struggle. I wanted to break the stereotype that…

— Duniya Vijay

I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more…

— Kaya Scodelario

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away…

— Jo Brand

What no woman or man needs is anyone telling them they are 'too fat' or 'too skinny.' That just adds to the…

— LeAnn Rimes

A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in…

— Stephen Toulmin

[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful…

— Anton Chekhov

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship…

— Tim Holden

Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about…

— Hazel Rochman

America is the land of opportunity, and people can live in America and be who they want to be. Don't deny your…

— Rima Fakih

Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing…

— Ted Chiang

Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel…

— Jessica Alba

Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black…

— Bell Hooks

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that,…

— Jane Rule

I feel a lot of personal responsibility to undo the negative stereotypes. I know that it's not coming from a bad place.…

— Zach Anner

Today there are a huge number of think tanks working on poverty-related issues; there are books written on the topic; and university…

— Sasha Abramsky

We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters…

— Mary Pipher

“It’s a stereotype,” he hissed. “It’s a damn stereotype and it’s harmful. If this catches on, we’ll have all sorts of sorcerers…

— Derek Landy

Some people think that Southern hip-hop doesn't have any depth. They think it's just noise, all about people having a good time…

— Jesmyn Ward

The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an…

— Walter Lippmann

I don't remember being thought of as good-looking until I became a feminist. It's more of a comment on people's expectations than…

— Gloria Steinem

I want to break the stereotype that when an actress becomes a mother, she can only do certain type of roles.

— Richa Pallod

We need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to kill the enemy.

— Michael Savage

Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

— Danica McKellar

There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.

— David R. Mains

I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.

— Bill McKibben

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

— Frank Lampard

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

— Priyanka Chopra

I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.

— Ricky Williams