Colin Kaepernick Quotes

I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

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.

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.

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.

Not long ago, every time I did a picture shoot for a magazine, the photographer would ask me to show up wearing jeans and cowboy boots. They seemed to think I was a hillbilly. Now it's different. Now they're not quite sure what to make of me. And I show up wearing whatever I want.

When I first agreed to do 'Shark Tank,' they asked me to wear a suit, and I was just like, 'No. I can't. It'll end my career.'

You look at me: you see the tattoos, and I ride a motorcycle.

I'm not the face of Mexico.

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

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

For me, there are worse things than being pigeonholed as the nice guy.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

The perception in Silicon Valley is that if you dress well, you couldn't possibly be smart, or you're in P.R. but couldn't possibly run a company. I remember briefly attempting the Adidas and jeans and sweatshirt over T-shirt look, but I realized I was trying to dress like a young tech geek, and that just wasn't me.

A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

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

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.

Some of those cartoons look nothing like me.

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

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.