The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on 'Community' and 'Parks and Recreation' - they are the archetype of the large black women on television. Snide and sassy.

Issa Rae

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

Adrian Edmondson

Art Wrong Who

A lot of kid characters you see on TV are sassy, and snarky, and think they're just the coolest kids in the world, and are mean spirited.

Alex Hirsch

Cool You World

After 'Arrested Development,' I didn't know for sure if I wanted to be an actor. I was hitting this wall, where I was the 'ethnic best friend' or the 'sassy teenager.' It felt like the same note, and I didn't feel like I was growing.

Alia Shawkat

Teen Men Age

I usually play grounded, has-their-head-on-straight kind of sassy girls.

Alia Shawkat

Usual Us UN

People know I like to laugh and have a good time. Even when I'm sassy, it's still kind of stupid-silly.

Alyssa Edwards

Time Good Up

My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'

Angela Kinsey

Work Mom Wit

I'm usually cast as the sassy, brassy best friend.

Annie Parisse

Usual Us T

There's a part of me that always has the little bit of the sassy sexiness in her. That's probably why I ended up with The Pussycat Dolls in the first place.

Ashley Roberts

Art Wit Why

I'm a strong person. I'm also very sassy and a little bit angsty sometimes.

Ashley Tisdale

Time Very Times

I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.

Ashley Tisdale

Want Very TV

All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.

Ava DuVernay

Women Men Women Are

In the CoverGirl Melting Pout Matte Lipstick ads, I am wearing this gorgeous purple color called Seismic. It's such a different shade, but it works well with my face. I've got hazel eyes, and so purple kind of compliments it. It's a nice shade to put on when I'm feeling a little sassy.

Ayesha Curry

Work Men Yes

I would be Sassy Spice.

Bobby Berk

Would Spice Sassy

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

Bruce Beresford

Wit Tree Tin

Doing a song that's sassy but kind of has that little flair to it, it's very me.

Brynn Cartelli

Very T Song

I'm always nice and then people are happy to hang out with me! There's no point being a sassy diva queen.

Camille Rowe

Wit Ways Way

I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am.

Cecily Strong

Very UN Think

Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It's a double thing. Security and insecurity.

Celia Imrie

Change Car Amazing

We were anything but 'America's sweethearts.' On the inside we were total sassy rebels.

Charlotte Caffey

Art Were Total

Shore Leave is the one who evolved the most - because he started as a one-off joke because we were gagging on how the G.I. Joe vocationally specific-themed characters reminded us of the Village People. We made a sassy Village People kind of guy, and then we brought him back.

Christopher McCulloch

Art Age Who

I was a precocious child. Everyone called me sassy.

Daisy Lowe

The sassy black woman who can land a good joke was sort of my go-to audition. Or playing a struggling mother.

Danielle Brooks

I'm really attracted to playing strong, outspoken, sassy women. And I love playing characters who have a little bit of conflict or who can be controversial.

Darby Stanchfield

The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.

Flip Wilson

One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

Gabourey Sidibe

After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

Gayle Forman

The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on 'Community' and 'Parks and Recreation' - they are the archetype of the large black women on television. Snide and sassy.

Issa Rae

I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with 'I Hope It Rains' it was definitely somewhere in the middle with being sassy but also a little class in there as well. It was a good blend for me and who I want to be perceived as an artist.

Jana Kramer

My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky.

Jason Wu

I love the sassy skinnies; that's what I usually wear.

Jenna Ushkowitz

There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that's not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn't move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial paradigm.

Jesse Williams

I think most people, almost 96 percent, remember me as Catwoman on the 'Batman' television series. It is a part I will always be grateful for, because it was one of the great parts ever written for a woman. She was sexy, sassy and successful. I played many things, but that is what I will probably be best remembered as.

Julie Newmar

I don't know, I like the word sassy.

Kat Dennings

There are very few shows that show women talking like strong, sassy women. Do you know what I mean? 'Sex and the City' started doing that, and that was why that was such a huge hit.

Katie Aselton

My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky.

Katy Perry

'Things that Never Cross a Man's Mind' is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs because it is just a sassy song, and it's a fun song.

Kellie Pickler

Just because I'm sassy and have a mouth on me doesn't mean I'm coming from a negative place.

Kesha

I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.' But I'm deeply sensitive. Not only about myself but to others. Not to pat myself on the back, empathy is a quality I've cultivated over my life. It came naturally to me as a child.

Laura Benanti

Of course I'm very sassy.

Laurie Hernandez

I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night.

Lorde

Women loved that part 'cause K.C. was just sassy.

Marg Helgenberger

It's people who look like me, just seeing representation of everyone. I didn't get that when I was young. I only saw one black girl that was on a Disney show, that was known for being the sassy, coocoo, that type of girl.

Marsai Martin

Part of me just wants 'Jane' magazine back, and 'Sassy,' too.

Mary H.K. Choi

The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick.

Maureen Dowd

There couldn't possibly be a more label-driven industry than acting, seeing as every audition comes with a character breakdown: 'Beautiful, sassy, Latina, 20s'; 'African American, urban, pretty, early 30s'; 'Caucasian, blonde, modern girl next door'. Every role has a label; every casting is for something specific.

Meghan Markle

I'm tired of playing freaking cha-chas, the sassy CIA agent, the best friend homegirl. I'm tired of that!

Melonie Diaz

I am a bit sassy, with some sarcasm thrown into the mix, but stoic at the same time - and brash.

Mike Daniels

I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size 8 - this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist.

Mindy Kaling

That has been everybody's challenge, above the dancing, the singing, the lines: getting into who these characters would be in 2015. Today's Tin Man is heartfelt, but he wouldn't be soft. Today's Dorothy would be sassy.

Ne-Yo

There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there are no quirky black women. I struggle with those things constantly, trying to add dimension to my work, and that's the goal, too.

Nicole Beharie