There would always be scripts that came along that I turned down, like Gang Member #5 – roles that were just stereotypes.
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.
Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or ‘tiger family’ stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.
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.
‘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.
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.
I am conscious of the community that I’m representing and don’t play into stereotypes.
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.
The stereotypes attached to Bollywood were that it’s a big, bad world or that it’s a dirty world.
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 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.
I just didn’t fit the stereotypes of gay men. I was an ESPN addict as far back as elementary school. I’d also had early crushes on girls.
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.
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 use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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.
When you are not part of an industry, your knowledge of that field is based on what you read and hear and on the stereotypes that are attached to it.
Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.
The fact that ‘Astro Boy’ appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.
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.
For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it’s just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes.
The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
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 it’s time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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.
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.
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.
There is a constant projection of stereotypes and ‘saas-bahu’ sagas that keep getting popular as opposed to some experimental storylines.
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.
As an actor, you break stereotypes all the time.
The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it’s almost always a partial truth.
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.
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.
‘Fast Times At Ridgemont High’ is one of my favorite movies; it’s a film that’s a human comedy, it’s a drama, and the characters all, in a way, fit the teenage archetypes, but they don’t become stereotypes because each of the actors brought their own presence and their own personality to the screen.
I believe in civility, inclusion and diversity. I believe that everybody can contribute. I don’t believe in labelling and stereotypes. These things are the antithesis of what I believe in and go against everything I love in America. And I do love America.
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.
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.
The most obvious thing I do is I don’t wear a burqa, and I’m definitely not oppressed. Plus, I’m quite obviously an independent thinker, which means as soon as I walk on stage, I dispel a lot of those stereotypes.
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.
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?’
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.
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.
Star Trek’s insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereotypes who could supply the emotional frame for the potentially jarring truths of these distant places.
Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed ‘gangstas,’ minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes?
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.
There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it’s to the exclusion of anything else.
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.
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.
The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
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.
Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.
It’s almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.
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.
