Swara Bhaskar Quotes

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.

People always told me that nothing would match my face, my structure other than roles of sophisticated, educated women. I felt it was an insult to me.

When you look a certain way, or you have a certain presence, people take someone else's word over yours.

I became stereotyped.

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

I do know that people treat me different with blonde hair than they do with red hair.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

People automatically assume that if I get anywhere it's because of my association with X, Y or Z, or because I'm pretty.

I've had people hate me for my appearance. I think it gets me a certain level of empathy with the audience. If I was white and handsome and privileged, I probably couldn't talk about what I talk about because people wouldn't believe that I have empathy or I could be evenhanded and objective. It's strange.

There have been instances when people have told me that I look too intelligent to be an actress.

People have said, 'Oh, but you don't look like you're from Manchester.' And I always want to ask, 'What the hell does someone from Manchester look like?'

From my situation as an African American person in the U.S., people may look at me and think a certain thing without getting to know me. I'm of Nigerian and Caribbean heritage. I went to Yale. What you see is not what you think you're getting.

How do you stand tall and strong as a woman while trying to be the smartest woman in the room and try to remain non-threatening?

I assume everyone is going to hate my music before listening to it or hate me before meeting me because of where I come from and my name - it's not Smith or Taylor.

I was always the captain of every club I played for, so I would expect to be somebody who put themselves forward.

It’s the downside of a family business: anything good is because I’m somebody’s son; otherwise, I’m a schmuck.

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

If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.

At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing.

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

I don't think anyone's ever thought I was a drug dealer.

You can't do comedy with a beard.

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