Sasha Spielberg Quotes

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

I became stereotyped.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.

I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me, or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.

I go into meetings, and people have this preconceived notion of me that I didn't work hard to get where I am.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

There are people who are blond and blue-eyes who are walking through airports that are terrorists. There are people who look exactly like me who are terrorists.

I have had to answer questions like, 'But you don't look like lead material.' Now, I still don't know what 'lead material' looks like because everyone has eyes, a nose, and a face.

Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.

We all deal with being unfairly judged.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

People hate me for whatever reasons they come up with, or they hate me because their friends said they should. What can I do about it? What can I do about people who look at things the wrong way? At the end of the day it's like, 'You're wrong, I'm just a skateboarder. How can I help you?'

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

All labels are offensive in some way.

Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for people to sort items into categories and respond based on what is usually associated with those categories: a form of statistical discrimination, playing the odds.

I think any stereotyping is too much.