Stereotype Quotes

Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

I am a rare species, not a stereotype.

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

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

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

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.

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).

Stereotypes wouldn't be so bad if black people were nicer, in general.

I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.

A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype

The moment there is imagination there is myth

Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes you see in the movies. I knew the real ones, and the real ones were out for big money.

Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t let that put you in a box. Don’t let that ruin your day.

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.

I'm one dude and when I make my bed I lay in it but don't stereotype me. Never sold a crumb to this day and I don't do nothing on the side.

Stereotypes have their roots in truth.

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

Not exactly smashing stereotypes of liberals as mincing pantywaists, the left's entire contribution to the war effort thus far has been to whine.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

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

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.

It is an old stereotype, that homosexuality has to do only with sex while heterosexuality is multifaceted and embraces love and romance.

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.

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.

I don't want to be a stereotype; I want a character that's aspirational.

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

I don't make the stereotypes, I just see them.

You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.

I said that one can't stereotype [Donald] Trump voters anymore than they can anybody else.

One of those things where immediately when you started reading it, you knew it was something special and then the more you read, the more it surprised you, and the more you realized it was devoid of stereotype .

I think any stereotyping is too much.

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

I think the worst thing is stereotyping.

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

Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite material identity. The classifications, the categories, the stereotypes, and the images are on one side, and the material pictures, statues, texts, and so forth are on the other.

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

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

...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

There's one stereotype in the industry that Asian people aren't funny, I've heard that over and over again.

You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.