Sam Heughan Quotes

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

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

I refuse to be 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 resent ever being stereotyped.

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.

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

If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.

I became stereotyped.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb.

Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

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

I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.

The mistake we make with many people is that we assume that we have the model. It is a type of condescension.

Stereotypes and perceptions have their real effects.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation, or a distinct group by its least worthy members.

Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

I've run into people who say, 'I know what you're like: You're a Boston guy.' That's so weird. This person who doesn't know anything about me thinks they know a lot because of the city I grew up in, which, to me, is a meaningless label. There are all kinds of people from Boston.

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

I think I've been completely underestimated in the past because of my blonde hair.

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