Michael Welch Quotes

I refuse to be stereotyped.

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

I really don't want to be a stereotype.

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

I think I'm going to be stereotyped forever, but I'm not scared of being stereotyped.

I wanted to explore expectations we have of people - what a woman should be, what a man should be. And if they don't meet our own interpretation of who they should be because of their gender, their background, their ethnic group, we then come to conclusions about them that are not accurate.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

Every character when born is a stereotype.

I became stereotyped.

Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.

Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

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

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

I resent ever being stereotyped.

I'm not Laverne Cox. I'm not Janet Mock... I'm just a girl from New Jersey who has experience and lived.

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.

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.

People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're so boring. How dare you be so boring? Grow up. Get some Ray-Bans.

Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.

albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.

I don't believe in typecasting. Just because all my characters may come from the other side of the tracks doesn't mean they are all the same. You don't stereotype people and generalize people, everyone's different.

being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.