Kelley Armstrong Quotes

I think, between the tattoos, the way I dress, the way I talk, people don't think it should go together with a franchise quarterback or someone that's leading the team or representing the organization.

We fight the stereotypes, but in fighting them, we show them. There are stereotypes for a reason.

I had to tell people I was not born with a scarf because I came out Iran. People think you came out of your mother with a scarf; they can't imagine that the scarf is not stuck to your head.

Every character when born is a stereotype.

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

When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

Manbags are only acceptable if you are Italian, French, or gay.

I think people are a little surprised sometimes at the level on which I actually talk. I don't talk like Caine. And every once in a while, somebody is surprised because I smoke and I drink. But I don't feel that is a contradiction.

I actually spoke to one of the heads of a studio, and he said I confuse middle America. Basically, when they see a black person, they see athlete, they see rapper, or they see criminal or something like that. And then when they hear a British accent, they hear posh, so they hear lawyer or doctor.

After 'Gangs,' people thought that I couldn't speak a sentence in English or that I don't wear jeans or, you know, I am a city girl.

I really don't want to be a stereotype.

There are definitely advantages to not looking like a Viking in real life.

I don't see myself as exotic.

Maybe you don't know who a person is just based on the way they dress. I know that's a really simple thing you're supposed to be taught really young, but sometimes you can forget.

I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes it.

I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.

Stereotypes have their roots in truth.

The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.

I meet people and a lot of times, instead of saying, "Are you from the East Coast?" people just go, "you're from the East Coast, right?", having no reason to have known that. I don't know what that is. Maybe it's just that I'm Jewish.

The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.

You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.