Being the only Indian in class, I had to be able to stand up and defend myself and debate the others when they tried to say: "You Indians get everything free. " People have stereotypes of Indigenous people. I learned to challenge in a respectful way.
As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.
I think a fear of portraying something negatively ends up creating more stereotypes. Like a fear of going into these negative feelings that I have had and a lot of women that I've spoken to have had creates these sort of plasticky women.
We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.
The roots of anti-Semitism is a complex question - if I think about why I was open to these thoughts, it was because I had never met any Jews before and therefore I could believe all the stereotypes of these people.
I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.
Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. . . . but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.
Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.
I tell [scriptwriters] I think [their scripts] has too many stereotypes, that even the way they come in and out of Spanish doesn't really make sense, it feels forced.
You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.
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.
I like the labels because I think they tell my story in a very concise way: gay, Latino. I think the responsibility that comes with accepting labels is that now I get a chance to break stereotypes. It gives me the opportunity to tell the unique stories of what those labels mean.
I didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon stereotypes.
Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.
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.
Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.
We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.
