Sonny Sandoval Quotes

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

I think our society is all about judgment, which is so rude and disrespectful.

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

When you have demonization of a group of people, it's easy to clump them all together and not understand them.

I've always felt like I'm on the outside. I think certain people judge you right away, and I've always been acutely sensitive to that. I'm fighting, whether it's accurate or not, a perception that I get of people thinking I'm dumb.

Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.

If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?

I was always different from people. Especially being from Kentucky, I always got made fun of.

I am uncomfortable judging people, as we - members of the film fraternity - are judged more than anybody else.

I am a marked person, and no one who's unmarked is going to understand that. It's very intimidating. I don't even know what my place is anymore. What's my role in society? Who am I, after everybody has branded me?

I'm used to being judged. I know what that feels like.

You might see someone with dreadlocks and label them a hippie in your head, but that doesn't mean they think of themselves that way. A lot of people look at me and see I have a beard and shaggy hair, and think I'm a hippie. I'm not a hippie, and I'm not not a hippie. I don't know what the f**k I am.

It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.

Let's stop being afraid ... to seem intolerant

There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans.

It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this phenomenon in our culture where people identify themselves with their interests. I've been trying not to think about it too much. It used to really upset me when people called me "witch house."

Everyone now, they look back and they're like, "What happened to your sweet image that you used to be?" And I'm like, then when you came out you thought I was too provocative. It's like you can never win. No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody, you know. I'm not here to please.

I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.

People think because I'm shaped this way, I'm scandalous

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.