Christiane Amanpour Quotes

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.

It is strange that no other nationality, apart from Arabs, have been accused of carrying out this action. We are surprised why Arabs, particularly the Saudis, have been singled out.

Kids used to say stuff all the time about how I was different.

No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old.

I think I've been completely underestimated in the past because of my blonde hair.

The consequences for failure are very different if you're a woman or a person of color than they are if you're a guy. If you're a guy who makes a mistake, you get a second chance. Often, for those of us who are outsiders, we make a mistake, and that's the end of the conversation.

Color don't mean anything. People gonna try to put you in a place one way or the other.

I've had nights where it's very obvious that I'm the good guy, but I'm still booed, and you can kind of make a checklist about reasons why they're booing me, and one of the evident ones is because of my name and where I'm from.

I'm African-American. There are more eyes on me than anybody. They're going to take the negative before the positive.

Colorism is unfortunately still an issue today.

If one of my own makes a mistake, they judge us all. Tomorrow, if a white man in Africa makes a mistake, we should judge all white people? No!

As a black woman, I feel like I have a unique experience that we don't often see in media portrayals of the South.

I feel disheartened when I see stereotypes, because it's untrue and unfair. It just raises the level of inequality.

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.

The majority of the roles I've played are women who have been either impoverished or subjugated in some way. So while I've been fortunate enough to have success because these roles exist, they are stereotypical roles.

I've been called pushy and aggressive and all the negative words that are rarely applied to men with the same traits. But it doesn't bother me.

Asian males have not been appreciated for what they are. They have always been dissed for what they are not.

Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment - it can be institutional too.

Black lives certainly do matter - that's one thing. But, it's just that in every profession, there are bad, as well as there are good. I think it's wrong to make cops - or any group - out to be the enemy based on a generalization. Stigmas and generalizations about groups are what get this world into such turmoil.

I can't tell you the number of times I have been underestimated, objectified or deprived of fair credit for my accomplishments based on my gender or ethnicity.

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

It's illegal to hire or fire anybody because of their race, appearance, or sexual orientation, but in Hollywood, ironically, it's the reason people will hire or not hire you.

I never used to be taken seriously as a Swiss person.