Quotes about Stereotypes

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

It wasn't easy. In junior high, I was voted "most polite," and it took some time for me to realize that being perceived as a "nice guy" and being a faithful Christian don't always go hand in hand.

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.

The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

Jesus lives the challenge to our gender stereotypes and prejudices, but he is also wonderfully subversive in the ways he legitimates and empowers women.

But if you ask the average person how Christians live, they are struck silent.

I don't reckon men are supposed to think, Sally said philosophically, as the pile of hemp rope grew at her feet. That's why God gave 'em big muscles.

I think that your sister is awful. I think it's disgusting-a woman acting like a grease-monkey and posing around like a big executive. It's so unfeminine. Who does she think she is, anyway?

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.