Stereotypes Quotes
Pushing back against narrow labels.
These quotes look at how television and film can flatten real communities into tired tropes, and celebrate the slow, real progress being made to widen who gets to be seen on screen. Browse our People quotes collection.
While television can help normalize the lives of marginalized people, it also can exploit their hardships and reinforce stereotypes, reducing their lives to mere entertainment.
Certain stereotypes are being broken: that only people with a certain profile can be actresses or be on the cover of magazines.
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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.
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.
Being Quotes
I feel disheartened when I see stereotypes, because it's untrue and unfair. It just raises the level of inequality.
It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.
We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.
Feel Quotes
I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.
Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.'
I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.
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 don't feel that any kind of narrow stereotypes are representative of the work I've done, nor the range of the audience that work has found. I've played lots of different roles, and they've connected with lots of different people.
Like Quotes
I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.
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.
I want our generation to break stereotypes, and I want Indians who are making their foray in Hollywood to get all kinds of roles.
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...
People Quotes
There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful.
