Top 222 Stereotypes Quotes

The title ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend‘ is meant to be a deconstruction of a stereotype, and the whole show is about deconstructing the boxes that we’re supposed to be put into. We like taking apart the tropes and the stereotypes and explore the nuances, so ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ is a label that we go deep underneath to explore.

We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it’s just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody‘s different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly, and we laugh at their accuracy.

We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it’s okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It’s okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you‘re human.

In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on ‘Homeland.’ I love playing her, not just because she’s a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.

One of my passion is acting and breaking the stereotypes at the same time by choosing strong characters of what women are and can be.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they’re stereotypes because they’re true.

People who would never think of dealing in racial or sexual stereotypes will still throw in a fat joke because it’s still OK. Really?

TV is kind of messed up in terms of stereotypes and who plays the leading man and leading lady.

As an actor, you break stereotypes all the time.

Of course we’ve been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That’s the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes – waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

My agent and I are very clear on what kind of roles I’m interested in, and I don’t want to perpetuate any stereotypes.

I think rather than further the stereotypes of me going into the league and being ‘the Harvard guy,’ I shattered those when I was a rookie and I couldn’t call a play in the huddle.

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I’m singing and writing about these days. It’s all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

It seems inevitable, if unfair, that when a woman is vying for a prominent position in office, her outfit choices will be analyzed to a degree considerably higher than those of her male counterpart by simple existence of gender stereotypes.

What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don’t have to say every Tory is in it for themselves – it’s pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.

I believe that when you really make the best music you can make from your heart, it will transcend all of those stereotypes, color issues, everything, because music is really made for human beings.

You want a kitchen put in, I’m your girl. I’m very handy, and I love a practical challenge. I fit all the stereotypes of the lesbian with power tools.

I’m working hard to break free of stereotypes that the film industry has created and nurtured around women.

Being the U.S. champion is a big deal for me. Knowing that my ancestors built this country, it’s kind of like, the Irish were treated badly in this country for a long time, with a lot of tacky Irish stereotypes, so to me, it’s kind of like a bragging right.

I’ve learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra… I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

I think novels – or any art form – can have a powerful impact on people’s perceptions of race, particularly if they draw attention to the absurd inconsistencies and stereotypes we all carry around with us and don’t want to think about.

I feel like a part of my role being a musician and part of why I want to be a musician is to show women an alternative to sort of the cultural norms, the stereotypes of what we’re supposed to be, demure and quiet and motherly.

I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people’s expectations of me as an actress.

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.

I want to always break stereotypes. It is fulfilling as an actor to be able to do that, especially when you see people and the audience loving it.

The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.

I am conscious of the community that I’m representing and don’t play into stereotypes.

The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

Don’t read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I’ve gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I’ll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

Success on the front of women’s rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances – where no girl is denied access to education, for instance – but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

As Latinas, we tend to be overly partial considering stereotypes. I’m interested in being naughty and edgy.

My whole life, I’ve been hearing, ‘He’s good for a white boy‘… My plan in boxing is just to eliminate stereotypes. I don’t feel like just because the color of my skin that I can and can’t do something.

I was sort of a floater in high school; I feel like I tried my hand at all the different stereotypes or cliques. I’m grateful for the experience to walk in all those different shoes.

I mean I do believe there is a responsibility of the entertainment industry in general with everything that is happening with the world, with violence and with climate change and with the stereotypes with Latinos or any community.

Yeah, I’m sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.

For me, be it ‘Arth’ or ‘Libaas’ or ‘Masoom,’ there has always been space to break stereotypes or social constructs and perform beyond the norm. It happened all through my career and I am happy it did.

When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.

OK, so we all know that ‘Borat’ is humiliatingly, career-endingly unfunny (one trick too many for one-trick pony Sacha Double-Barelled) – but can anyone explain why the ‘character‘ isn’t roundly condemned for being as unacceptably racist as the one-dimensional stereotypes from 70s sitcoms such as ‘Mind Your Language?’

In many ways, being yourself is dispelling stereotypes.

In a lot of films, they’re showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can’t let that hold you down… If that’s the first thing you think about as a black woman – the challenge that lies ahead – you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.

Over the years, Chevron has behaved in a way that reinforces the worst stereotypes about large corporations: it has cynically avoided responsibility for its past and watched in indifference as more people become sick and die because of its failure to deal with its legacy environmental issues.

I think ‘Empire‘ is entertaining. It’s a soap opera. Does it touch on stereotypes? Sure, it does… I don’t know if that’s necessarily good or bad.

Don’t live up to your stereotypes.

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I’ll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

I would like the world to know that Yemeni women are strong, and if empowered, they can achieve. The world needs to look beyond stereotypes and dress code. In our hearts, we are just human beings who want to live a dignified life. Is that too much to ask for?

Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That’s the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, ‘I’d have never guessed.’

For me, style wasn’t something that was a luxury or an option, really: It was a necessity. I knew that there were certain negative stereotypes that I faced because of the way I looked. For me, suits and style became social armour.

Despite the gender stereotypes in the ’80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.

I don’t think I’m defying stereotypes on purpose. If it so appears that way, so be it. For me, I’ve been brought up that way.

I feel like when you call us drag queens, it stereotypes us. It puts us as labels and I feel like we are performers.

When women are provided with training and entrepreneurial opportunities in distribution networks, they become role models in their communities, showing it is possible to challenge limiting norms and stereotypes, and to succeed.

I’m not a big fan of dealing with stereotypes because I think everybody’s unique and I have met plenty of people who have bucked their stereotypes. But there are things that women are physiologically better suited to.

A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

Many black youths are defying stereotypes, achieving good academic results, finding employment and contributing to their communities. But helping those who fall behind is not an exercise in political correctness, it is a precisely what a compassionate – and sensible – state should concern itself with.

I think it’s funny when stereotypes happen.

Stereotypes, they’re sensual, cultural weapons. That’s the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

I like playing Italian teams. To me, they are the fairest sportsmen of them all. I don’t agree with the Italy stereotypes – I trust in what I have experienced and witnessed.

Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner‘s writings, but I can’t accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.

Normally you read a screenplay – and I read a lot of them – and the characters don’t feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

I hope people realize that drag queens and queer people, we’re not just archetypes and stereotypes. We’re human beings with a lot to share. And a drag queen doesn’t have to just be a clown, she can also be like a cooking TV personality or like a DJ, or a talk-show host. We should be able to infiltrate TV everywhere.

I’m not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it – but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I’m singing and writing about these days. It’s all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

When aspiring writers ask me about how they should target their writing, I tell them to pay no attention to that kind of thing. It will restrict you. You will end up falling into stereotypes in an effort to tailor your work toward a perceived genre category.

Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies.

Dressing in an androgynous way, mixing up the masculine and feminine, blurring those boundaries – I’m cool with that. No one should ever be limited by stereotypes of gender, just as no one should ever be limited by stereotypes of race.

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

There always will be stereotypes that women can’t drive. When I hear the comments, it just makes me more determined to prove them wrong.

Every time we have a chance to mention it, we say we’re from Staten Island. Because of some of the stereotypes, sometimes Staten Island gets a bad rap, and we’re in a position to at least try to maybe change that perception.

Often, our laws and policies reflect patriarchal biases that can trap men in stereotypes – for example, the idea of guarding the modesty of a woman serves neither men nor women nor any other gender – instead, it comes from the same strong patriarchal framework that we need to confront and reject.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

I feel disheartened when I see stereotypes, because it’s untrue and unfair. It just raises the level of inequality.

We don’t have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from – Oklahoma. We don’t ride around in covered wagons, either.

The old racism of imperialism not only rendered the postwar political elite unable to see black people as full British citizens, it provided them with a whole glossary of stereotypes and preconceptions that they then deployed in order to justify their aim of introducing immigration controls.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team‘s mission.

The grand jury system – not just in Ferguson, but nationwide – needs a hard look. Millions feel that officers who are trigger-happy are handed a license to shoot – based not on facts, but on stereotypes the officers carry.

I dug up some old John Buscema ‘Conan’ comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early ’70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes.

We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly, and we laugh at their accuracy.

I think it’s time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

I always say I’m just eternally grateful for this role because Raven Reyes defies all stereotypes. It’s revolutionary for a character on television, and it’s also extremely creatively liberating as an artist.

Stereotypes should never influence policy or public opinion.

The point is that these decisions they’ve made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.

I didn’t want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is – that’s really strategic. That’s a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear.

I don’t believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.

I feel like I’m here to bust those misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslim women.

I’ve learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra… I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

Stereotypes are so played out.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It’s not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.

And people are always saying he deceptively quick, deceptively athletic, and I don’t know if that’s just because I’m Asian or what it is, but obviously there’s going to be stereotypes that you have to fight.

I am proud to be able to exhibit my work and inspire young people. Especially young black women so they know that they are beautiful, that they don’t have to hold onto any negative stereotypes.

Our leaders must hold themselves to a higher standard and ensure their words and actions do not promote hate or hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes.

There were stereotypes: you are from the communist country so you are not a hard worker. You talk awkwardly and speak with an accent and you don’t have any high education like us so you are basically stupid. And I am shorter than South Koreans – I was malnourished when I was young. It made me believe I was a loser.

I grew up seeing so many stereotypes on TV, and I didn’t want to play that as well.

I think the stereotypes many black men are put under, even in the entertainment world, can sometimes have a dark or negative undertone.

Experiences with friends or family members coming out have helped millions of Americans to see past stereotypes and better understand what being gay is – and is not.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

I can’t say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.

For a while, I was feeling like I was always playing characters that weren’t specifically Korean or specifically Asian, even – that they were characters who were originally written white, and then they would cast me. And I used to consider that a badge of honor because that meant I had avoided stereotypes.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

But, my passion is acting and I want to follow it. I want to be an actor who inspires people and breaks stereotypes of what women are and can be, by choosing strong characters.

I love directors who aren’t going back to the stereotypes, who are helping write and create roles for women that are not in the typical Hollywood box. I’m very, very interested in films that are going outside of stereotypical roles for women.

Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice – a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn’t. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.

It’s important to understand you can’t remove the historical context of racially charged stereotypes or slurs as much as we like to pretend that we can.

I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.

Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

Men are more likely to be introverted than women are, but it’s really very slight. But the real difference I think is in how it plays out, how it relates to cultural stereotypes.

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

Every quirky girl doesn’t have to be the best-friend character. It’s a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

The one thing about Lumbee people is that there’s so many stereotypes about Native Americans, especially reservation Native Americans, and we all tend to get lumped under that umbrella. But the Lumbee are non-reservation. I grew up no different than anybody would in normal American communities.

We have to destroy stereotypes in people’s minds that Belarus can be isolated or taught a lesson.

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It’s not about doing something that’s already been done. That would be silly.

Even the ‘Negro’ shows like ‘Amos and Andy’ and ‘Beulah’ are written largely by white writers – the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

I’m big on being anti-stereotypical and fighting negative stereotypes.

I lost years of my life to prison because of two-dimensional and misogynist stereotypes.

There are lots of research, of course, saying that a vast majority of us have been exposed to racial biases and stereotypes and, to some extent, we’ve internalized them, because that’s so ubiquitous. That’s why I’m so bored with the conversation about who’s a racist and who’s not.

I like to look at it as things and people and whole society in general being uneducated about facts. There are a lot of stereotypes. But I don’t see color, I don’t see race.

I feel I’m really glad I don’t look like the celebrities out there who are beautiful, because there are a lot of stereotypes attached to that.

The peddling of anti-Semitic stereotypes is an insult to a community that has suffered throughout history from the use of such imagery to create the myth of ‘the great Jewish conspiracy.’

I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that’s not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

There’s always that stigma of, ‘Women shouldn’t box,’ or stereotypes of what a female boxer should look like. I don’t think the men really have to deal with that – to tell people they’re a boxer.

Making ribs in Texas isn’t that unusual a choice for ‘Top Chef‘. We played the stereotypes everywhere we go. It’s not only in Texas. We do it in New York; we did it in San Francisco. Listen if we shoot it in Seattle you know we’re going to be throwing salmon somewhere.

A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I’m free to be myself.

I have no problem breaking stereotypes. And proving people wrong – it’s actually quite fun.

Dressing in an androgynous way, mixing up the masculine and feminine, blurring those boundaries – I’m cool with that. No one should ever be limited by stereotypes of gender, just as no one should ever be limited by stereotypes of race.

By granting 4 million undocumented immigrants social security numbers that can potentially be misused through loopholes in our tax code and voting laws, President Obama is poisoning the waters of public perception and reinforcing negative stereotypes of Latinos and all immigrants.

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

The fact that ‘Astro Boy’ appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.

Much like the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street‘s message has gotten wrapped up in stereotypes. The Tea Party was weighed down by the birther movement, and Occupy Wall Street has gotten looped in with hippie culture.

‘The Bi Life’ will show many stories. I think that people will find some of those stereotypes, maybe some people are greedy, maybe some people are using bisexual as a transition, but not all of them are.

I think it’s so important to have visibility and to break down stereotypes and stigmas and everything that people are so attached to.

People who would never think of dealing in racial or sexual stereotypes will still throw in a fat joke because it’s still OK. Really?

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody‘s different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

At the end of the day, I’m a human being and I just think that’s what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am.

Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to ‘Be a Real Man‘ anymore? Shouldn’t we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?

In the spirit of debunking racial stereotypes, the one that black people don’t like to swim, I’m going to tell you how much I love to swim. I love to swim so much that as an adult, I swim with a coach.

The very first thing I tell every intern on the first day is that their internship exists solely on their resume. As far as I am concerned, they are a full-time member of my team. For all the negative stereotypes about millennials, you would be astounded by how hard they work when they believe their contribution matters.

I believe that actors should be open to breaking stereotypes and television has now a lot to offer. So, being typecast is not my style.

There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry‘s probably the most massively successful.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west‘s stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art’s assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Wherever I go, I just try to show normal life. If the work helps to dispel stereotypes, it’s because I seek not to portray the extremities of a place, but the vast majority of people who are quite normal and are having normal life experiences.

I feel disheartened when I see stereotypes, because it’s untrue and unfair. It just raises the level of inequality.

When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.

‘Drag Race’ has become a staple of modern television for the way it skewers expectations and attitudes about gender, much as a show like ‘black-ish’ works to challenge stereotypes about black families in America.

The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it’s almost always a partial truth.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It’s just not a good way to think. It’s non-thinking. It’s stupid and destructive.

Hillbilly stereotypes have always made it easier for middle-class whites to presume that racism is the exclusive province of ‘that kind’ of person.

Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to ‘Be a Real Man‘ anymore? Shouldn’t we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?

The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it’s almost always a partial truth.

I embrace my Latina background because I know that by doing so we will continue to break down stereotypes that may exist of Latina women.

Having been labelled at school and in the workplace as ‘sassy,’ ‘feisty,’ ‘aggressive,’ ‘hard’ and ‘dramatic,’ I started to believe these stereotypes. I self-stereotyped and became sure I would eventually become ‘too much’ for whoever I was with.

The one thing about Lumbee people is that there’s so many stereotypes about Native Americans, especially reservation Native Americans, and we all tend to get lumped under that umbrella. But the Lumbee are non-reservation. I grew up no different than anybody would in normal American communities.

There are stereotypes – it’s like an invisible line, but somehow you have to find the energy to be strong, to be super-confident, no matter if you are in front of the president of the U.S. or anyone else.

If, as a Spaniard, I am so often offended by the stereotypes that abound regarding my country, how can I accept and repeat the ones that fall even more heavily upon Israel?

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

The value of ‘Made in Italy’ must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.

Because I think it’s so easy to look at someone, regardless of where they grew up, where they came from, the language that they speak, to just look at the colour of their skin and all of a sudden reduce them to harmful stereotypes.

There is a constant projection of stereotypes and ‘saas-bahu’ sagas that keep getting popular as opposed to some experimental storylines.

I feel like I kind of earned my stripes working with The Stereotypes. It was maybe my 6th songwriting session I’ve ever been to, and they just gave me and a writer I used to write with 3-4 tracks and kinda just let us come up with whatever.

I want to steer away from the stereotypes that Latina women are categorized in. I feel like there are so many more opportunities for us. I like going out for those roles that says ‘open ethnicity.’

I’d read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

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

When you buy into the cultural idea of what’s acceptable and unacceptable, you reinforce negative stereotypes and prejudices. That wouldn’t work for me. I don’t love to give advice to anyone, because we all have to make our own choices, but I’d want to live my life in truth.

Strong moral arguments exist for why we should often try to ignore stereotypes or override them. But we shouldn’t assume they represent some irrational quirk of the unconscious mind. In fact, they’re largely the consequence of the mind’s attempt to make a rational decision.

People obsess about casting and representation, but really, all the real work is behind the camera. Casting an Asian American into a bad role where they’re shoehorned into these stereotypes is worse than not having cast them at all.

I want our generation to break stereotypes, and I want Indians who are making their foray in Hollywood to get all kinds of roles.

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it’s okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.

I think there’s a stereotype of what a biker is, and I think that’s one of the reasons people are shocked when they find out that I ride. I’ve been trying to break down the stereotypes and inspire new riders.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it’s helpful. So the fact that there won’t be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that’d be helpful.

We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.

Stereotypes exist because there’s always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.

American politics are rich with characters and stereotypes – Joe the Plumber, Harry and Louise, Nascar dads and hockey moms, to name a few. But one persistent type hasn’t gotten much attention: the Republican football coach.

I hope people realize that drag queens and queer people, we’re not just archetypes and stereotypes. We’re human beings with a lot to share. And a drag queen doesn’t have to just be a clown, she can also be like a cooking TV personality or like a DJ, or a talk-show host. We should be able to infiltrate TV everywhere.

There were a lot of stereotypes that I had to break of how people in the entertainment industry do business.

The way that China has been described in Western narratives makes it hard to tell a story that will escape the stereotypes and allow people to perceive it fresh.

Racism is a perceptive error, and what you actually have to do is you have to get into spaces where you’re meeting people and perceiving them as human beings and not as racial stereotypes and myths.

You have to look at the effects of something like ‘Little Britain,’ of how the stereotypes it pushes has impacted society and the way people interact with each other.

I guess patriarchal stereotypes have, as is true for most people, created painful moments in my life. As a result, I’m an activist. I’m for women’s rights, children’s rights, human rights, animal rights. I want to be part of the solutions to try to correct imbalance. And ‘Westworld,’ for me, is that.

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.

It’s really rare as a teenager to be offered a role that actually resembles what it’s like to be a teenager, because there are so many stereotypes that might be attractive to watch, but make you think: ‘Who is that? Who has that life at 16?’

As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.

We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.

We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

It’s funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I’ve had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it’s just because they don’t behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.

Stereotypes are convenient. And yet within them, everyone will say there’s something that – you know, they don’t come for no reason. It’s just that it takes time to explore complexity.

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or ‘tiger family’ stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they’re stereotypes because they’re true.

Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a ‘Hollywood starlet.’

As soon as you start looking into roles which are specifically Asian, Black, or Latina, you start looking at stereotypes. That’s the issue minority actors face – it’s not that we don’t want to play our ethnicities; it’s that, often, the role that’s written for our ethnicity is a stereotype.

I wish more Americans would travel here. I always encourage my friends: ‘Travel. See the Middle East. There’s so much to see, so many good people.’ And it’s vice versa, and it helps stop problems of misunderstanding and stereotypes from happening.

The enemy of the modern woman is not women who like fashion or are writing about it. The enemy is stereotypes that come from all places and that tell you to be one way or the other. The enemy is really real sexist people, like Todd Akin, and people who are violent against women physically or sexually.

I was drawn to ‘Fear Street’ for so many reasons. From reading the script on day one, I could tell that this trilogy was going to be so groundbreaking in the way that it subverted stereotypes and characters.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That’s the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, ‘I’d have never guessed.’

Comedy, surprisingly for a form that intends to bring joy and joviality, is always upsetting people. Jokes rely on broad strokes, stereotypes, caricatures, exaggerations and simplifications.

It’s almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

The first ‘Red Dawn‘ was made at a time when Hollywood didn’t stint in its use of Russian stereotypes. Cold war capitalist ideology construed the Soviets as different for two reasons – not only did they belong to another political-economic system, they didn’t seem to possess the same emotions that ‘we’ do.

Don’t let Labour‘s stereotypes and low expectations hold you back, and never let them treat you like a black sheep who will always follow them.

The ideal is a world in which every woman and girl can create the kind of life she wishes to lead, unconstrained by harmful norms and stereotypes.

I don’t believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.

Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

We need to get beyond the stereotypes. Palin has been cast as a right-wing nut job in the media, yet her actual record suggests something more complex. She is a Republican who made herself the enemy of oil companies in Alaska.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They’re so not me. That’s why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team‘s mission.

Growing up, there were stereotypes being put onto me as an Asian person that I had no control over, and that made me extremely uncomfortable.

Don’t live up to your stereotypes.

We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

The way that China has been described in Western narratives makes it hard to tell a story that will escape the stereotypes and allow people to perceive it fresh.