William Glasser Quotes

I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.

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

I think any stereotyping is too much.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

People look at you, and they've got just the perfect little box for you, the perfect category. Call you a redneck. Call you a hillbilly. Like those were insults.

People ask if I'm concerned about getting pigeonholed. No one asks, 'Ellen, you've done seven straight roles in a row. Shouldn't you shake it up, do something queer?' There's still that double standard.

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.

I am uncomfortable judging people, as we - members of the film fraternity - are judged more than anybody else.

The term stigma and its synonyms conceal a double perspective: does the stigmatized individual assume his differentness is known about already or is evident on the spot, or does he assume it is neither known about by those present nor immediately perceivable by them?

If someone labels you, it is very hard to shake it off.

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

I think it's just easier for people to put you in a box or a lane because you look similar. I think that's unfair for anybody in any situation.

I don't like to be pigeonholed; I don't like when people won't see me for something because they don't think I can do it. I always feel like, at least give me the shot.

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

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.

I definitely think that typecasting is something that happens all the time.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.