Adam Carolla Quotes

Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.

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.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

I go into meetings, and people have this preconceived notion of me that I didn't work hard to get where I am.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

I'll take discrimination if it's in my favor!

The Armenians are a race like the Jews: they have little or no national spirit and have poor moral character. Armenians and Greeks have many flaws and deficiencies of character that do not fit them for self government.

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice

I was never treated differently. I never felt like I was lesser or I was discriminated against. I've only experienced that after I became an actor.

Because of how I looked, there was definitely a prejudice against me. People didn't think I could play. I could see why: I weighed about eight stone and was six foot bleeding seven.

I'm Colombian. My family all have different complexions; some are people of color. I've been called every name by white people, been mocked for speaking in Spanish by white people.

When you're walking down a street and you are a brown-skinned person or you're a person that lives in an immigrant community, there's no differentiating on - solely on the basis of what you look like. They don't walk down the street saying, hi, I'm an immigrant; I'm here legally or not.

Anybody who says that favoritism doesn't exist in Bollywood would be lying.

We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly, and we laugh at their accuracy.

The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.

You will never be on this anchor desk, because you're Chinese.

People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.

I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.

We misjudge anybody who's different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That's their chief offense, but there are particular causes.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.