Sofia Vergara Quotes

I refuse to be stereotyped.

We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.

I resent ever being stereotyped.

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.

We fight the stereotypes, but in fighting them, we show them. There are stereotypes for a reason.

You walk into a room and there's already judgment. You know, like football players can't act or you're going to come in and be stiff.

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

I became stereotyped.

It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.

I've never liked to play stereotypes.

Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeonhole things. Lay somebody on an ironing board and put a scalding hot iron on them, get that going real good: 'Oh, this is who Holly Hunter is.'

I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

I'm definitely stereotyped, and I'm very okay with that.

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

I've been misconstrued because I speak in a certain way. I find it obnoxious how it defines you, somehow limits your ability to understand the human condition. You can't be allowed near emotions; you play these curling-lipped, haughty characters. This awful label - 'the posh Toby Stephens' - I'm not posh!

The reality that everyone is stereotyped - every one gets typecast, so you have to work to get out of that.

I think I've been cast as toughs as far as I can remember always, always.

Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked instead of what I could do.

It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.

People will sometimes put each other in boxes and have biases toward one another because of what they look like or where they come from or who they are. But ultimately, it's up to us to decide who we are.

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

A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.

Labels are for cans, not for people.

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.