I wasn't like the rest of the kids. I was an artist. Living in a black society, when you're raised around a bunch of boys who plays sports and chase girls, there's this perception of masculinity that's super hard to fit into. I wasn't the stereotype of that like a lot of my peers were.

Ashton Sanders

I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

Abhishek Bachchan

Car Will Who

People are so quick to demonize and stereotype those on the other side that they often say that it's impossible to work with people on the other side.

Adam Conover

Work Wit Type

When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Men You Wood

If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.

Adhir Kalyan

Car Yin Years

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

Adora Svitak

Women Success Men

I haven't ever been stereotyped or pigeonholed or put into a box.

Adrian Pasdar

Type T Stereotype

I'm playing my first urban character in 'Thirudan Police.' It's an important film because I'll be breaking the stereotype that I'm only fit for rural characters with this role.

Aishwarya Rajesh

Yin Wit Use

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

Al D'Amato

Types Type T

People who would never think of dealing in racial or sexual stereotypes will still throw in a fat joke because it's still OK. Really?

Al Roker

Would Will Who

The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it's almost always a partial truth.

Alex Tizon

Truth Art Ways

We have to destroy stereotypes in people's minds that Belarus can be isolated or taught a lesson.

Alexander Lukashenko

Us Types Type

Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society's most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.

Alexandra Petri

Society Art Yin

We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Car West Type

People obsess about casting and representation, but really, all the real work is behind the camera. Casting an Asian American into a bad role where they're shoehorned into these stereotypes is worse than not having cast them at all.

Ali Wong

Work Worse Where

After 'Student Of The Year,' when I played that baby-doll, diva character, I knew I would be stereotyped, and I wanted to break that image of me. I loved that role, but I don't want to be attached to one particular genre, so 'Highway' was a blessing in disguise.

Alia Bhatt

Love Art Age

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

Alice McDermott

Writer Write Who

One way I try to manage it is by not having a princess party for my daughter and trying to do things that are not so stereotyped. But if she's invited to a princess party, of course I'm not going to stop her going.

Alice Roberts

Art Age Yin

Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.

Alicia Witt

You Wild Victorian

The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.

Alvar Aalto

Nature World Wit

Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.

Amanda de Cadenet

Car Whatever Types

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.

Amanda Harlech

I lost years of my life to prison because of two-dimensional and misogynist stereotypes.

Amanda Knox

When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!

Amy Adams

Humans can be cruel - kids and adults alike. That doesn't mean they have to be forced to a specific stereotype.

Amybeth McNulty

Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types.

Andre Braugher

Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to 'Be a Real Man' anymore? Shouldn't we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?

Andy Dunn

I wanted to prove I wasn't that person everyone wanted to stereotype me. You can slag me off, I talk about my upbringing now and try and do it in a way that inspires others, but I never felt good about it.

Angela Rayner

The way you speak should not determine your intelligence. I should be able to say 'lit,' and you still know I'm intelligent. I should be able to say 'turn up,' and that doesn't take away from my intelligence. I wanted to break down that stereotype a little bit.

Angie Thomas

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

Ani DiFranco

The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.

Anita Borg

People don't stereotype an actor anymore because they want to see them doing more content driven roles. I can do any role. I'm not worried about getting typecast because I'm doing a period film.

Ankita Lokhande

In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.

Ann Leckie

I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits.

Ann Maxwell

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

Annie Leibovitz

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

Anson Mount

Negative gender stereotypes related to girls' education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics begin as early as primary school and have the devastating effect of making them doubt their own potential.

Antonio Guterres

If, as a Spaniard, I am so often offended by the stereotypes that abound regarding my country, how can I accept and repeat the ones that fall even more heavily upon Israel?

Antonio Munoz Molina

The stereotypes attached to Bollywood were that it's a big, bad world or that it's a dirty world.

Anushka Sharma

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.

Anushka Sharma

I think that's what we need more of: Asian-Americans on movie screens and TV screens where they're normalized. Where it's not about them being Asian or a person of color. It's just about them being a human. I think that's why sometimes when I see movies with an Asian family, but it's very stereotyped, I don't find that relatable.

Arden Cho

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

Ashton Sanders

I wasn't like the rest of the kids. I was an artist. Living in a black society, when you're raised around a bunch of boys who plays sports and chase girls, there's this perception of masculinity that's super hard to fit into. I wasn't the stereotype of that like a lot of my peers were.

Ashton Sanders

When I first was exposed to 'Porgy and Bess' many, many years ago, I was blown away by it - loved the music, overwhelmed by the production at the Met that I saw, and thought I want to play Bess someday. But I also knew they were stereotypes that were considered racist.

Audra McDonald

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

Ayanna Pressley

I don't want to be fake. I'm just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

Bad Bunny

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

Barack Obama

We need to overcome the stereotype that genders aren't fluid.

Barbie Ferreira

Here's the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the funniest, most self-deprecating people I know. And it's rare to find a Jew that is actually offended by comedy about them.

Ben Feldman

We so love to stereotype people in this country - I can relate to that myself as I've experienced it. By taking on challenges over the years, I've tried to show people I'm not just some 'posh boy' and that there's far more to me.

Ben Fogle

You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.

Bernadine Dohrn