Radha Ravi Quotes

I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, vain or uptight or mean to people.' People have a sense of who you may be because of the job you do. That's unfair judgment.

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

It was good because it helped me get where I'm at today, but then people stereotype and say we don't want to use her because she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'.

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.

Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.

I know people started suspecting whether I was a woman or a man. All the honour I earned - I lost.

There's a lot of stigma attached to being in a home. Other parents don't want their kids to play with you because you're naughty or nasty.

To make 'depression' synonymous with 'dangerous' is as bad as saying 'Muslim' is synonymous with 'terrorist.'

There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys.

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

A lot of people thought I was gay.

It caught us by surprise when people started calling us a boy band because we'd always considered ourselves pretty serious musicians.

People seem to think I got where I am because of the clothes that I wear. That's unfair to me and unfair to all of my accomplishments.

I'm not trying to prove anything. People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie. They don't really see the skills and the kind of player I am. That's why I get downgraded so much, because of something off the field.

Society doesn't portray transsexual people in a very positive light.

There's stigmas attached to anything that makes you, in the public's eye, seem weak. So of course, you know, you're in a business where your image, and the way people perceive you, you are taught, is important.

I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.

I really don't want to be a stereotype.

People always put you in a box as a rapper, especially when I get up on a panel and start speaking, and I start speaking when I got some sense. They're like, 'Oh, well, I didn't expect him to have sense.'

A lot of people think I'm just an athletic thug.

It is one of the most ignorant things you can do to a person, to say they're nuts or they're crazy. It diminishes the layers of who they are as a person.

They want to portray me as crazy, unhinged, unbalanced. OK, good, fine.