Top 175 Stereotype Quotes

For whatever reason, I didn’t succumb to the stereotype that science wasn’t for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

We make a mistake when we stereotype neighborhoods as ‘bad’ and not worth our attention or investment.

In some instances, I don’t care what people think. In other instances, I do – especially because of the stereotype. People take a look at me and say, ‘She’s cute. She’s blond. She’s an actress. She’s a bimbo.’ You know? So I take great pains to show I’m intelligent, to show I’m not a twinkie.

Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: ‘The poem’s sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.’

It’s a stereotype that Jews run Hollywood. Guess what? It’s true. Jews do run Hollywood. It’s a stereotype that many Jews are wealthy. Guess what? Many Jews are wealthy. And there’s nothing objectionable in the image. What’s unflattering about Jews rising out of oppression and poverty and making it to big success?

Nine times out of ten, people consider a nice little Jewish boy the kid who grows up and sits behind a desk preparing your taxes. I’ve certainly broken that stereotype in many ways.

When I was growing up, there was a character on TV; there was a character stereotype: it was personified by Mel on ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show.’

I think more than anything, as a comedian, I grow tired of the unoriginality of ‘crazy cat lady’ jokes. It’s a hacky joke based on an already-played-out stereotype.

I know the fact I’ve worked continuously since drama school means I fit a stereotype – the ingenue.

I was a young actor who was bald, but at that time, there was a thing on television that – there was a prototype or a stereotype of a principal who was bald and mean with glasses, or there was… the angry boss who was bald.

I happen to love science… Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

For marriage, yes, people always had their opinions of, ‘Oh, you’re too young,’ because it’s become a stereotype, for some reason, for people to get married later in their 20s.

I feel it’s so rare that young females are portrayed as being anything more than a stereotype.

On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.

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

It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.

Males and females can both have a fixed mindset about math and science, but it hurts girls more because they are on the negative end of the stereotype.

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

There’s a whole stereotype of the jazz musician that’s into poetry and reading and metaphysics and all that stuff. Really, it’s a sign of someone who’s searching, whose mind is open, looking for answers. Whatever ideas you may come up with, the beautiful thing is the search.

When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.

As an ambiguously non-white actor, I’ve been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don’t think that I’ve ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.

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.

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 think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn’t exist about America.

It doesn’t bother me or Curtis being questioned about our sexuality and it probably happens more because we’re dancers. That stereotype is disappearing, but people always made ignorant, short-sighted comments when we were growing up.

Every character when born is a stereotype.

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

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

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

I’ve been so open about my story, and I think it can show any female that you can do it. I had every single stereotype against me.

This stereotype that Black and brown boys and girls are dangerous or threatening has normalized systems of trauma: the cradle to prison pipeline, foster care, youth detention, and being tried and sentenced as adults. We treat trauma with more trauma.

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

When I look at myself, I’m not a big man – I’m a guard. I can do everything on the basketball court. You can name it – pass, post up, shoot the ball, bring the ball up, being a playmaker – so I’m excited to break that stereotype.

It delights me that I don’t fit the stereotype of an actress.

Fighter, father, husband – it’s all the same person. I know the UFC stereotype is that we’re all thugs. But I’d like people to know that I don’t have to switch one off to try to be another. Being a father and a fighter, it’s who I am.

Canadians are nice and polite. It’s not just a stereotype.

I believe the biggest challenge is just getting the courage to try something different or new. Try to forget the stereotype in your mind. Yoga is for everyone – children, athletes, moms, dads, accountants, truck drivers, even country stars.

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.

As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc… None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody’s stereotype or ideal.

Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It’s something I’ve always been interested in.

Aside from introducing and supporting legislation to help close the gender gap in STEM, I believe that shining the spotlight on female role models is one of the best ways we can break the gender stereotype.

I’m not feeding my kid off movie roles so it’s easy for me to say ‘no’ to things but it’s important for me to have this presence and I know it’s easy to stereotype and pigeonhole certain people that come from a certain genre but I can do more than a lot of people expect.

I’ve shattered every negative stereotype people had about me.

A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don’t get out much – the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate.

I had a stereotype in my mind of what a ‘Star Trek’ fans is, but I couldn’t have been more wrong.

In real life, I’m not super-posh but if that’s the stereotype, I really don’t care. It could be worse.

I definitely grew up as a small-town… I guess you could call it the ‘small-town football player,’ according to the stereotype. I wasn’t involved in music at all.

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you’re talking to.

People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They’d come and go – they wouldn’t actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don’t think I’m a muse, although I think I can help pull a trigger. I really like getting my hands dirty.

Koreans love to dance; they love to sing. If you actually know Koreans, you see how absurd the stereotype of the ‘Asian robot’ is. They love to laugh – they’re very affectionate. Maybe because of their history of oppression, when they feel you are part of their tribe, they are intensely loyal. I love that about Koreans!

This industry is quick to stereotype. People had started talking about how I was primarily being part of women-centric movies. I didn’t want to be labelled as part of a mahila morcha.