Rebecca Mader Quotes

Everyone thinks I am Punjabi till I tell them my surname Chakraborty.

Since I worked with Prince, people assumed that I was black.

Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.

I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British.

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.

I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.

Though I'm Punjabi, I'm often mistaken to be a Mexican or Spaniard.

My face couldn't play Jewish.

People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

In Mexico they think I'm Mexican. In Italy they think I'm Italian.

A lot people who hear that 'Go New York Go' assume that I must be black.

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.

A lot of stuff has been said about me. People said I was a Malayali because I have Shivan in my name just like Santhosh Sivan does. But I'm a Tamilian.

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie.

In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

Wherever I go, people ask: 'What is she? What is she?' There has always been an agenda - they're excluding me or including me in something with that question. It is the first thing agents in Los Angeles ask me. And then I'd hear: 'You're not black enough, you're too black, you're Italian - no, you're Spanish.'

The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.

I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.

I had to tell people I was not born with a scarf because I came out Iran. People think you came out of your mother with a scarf; they can't imagine that the scarf is not stuck to your head.