Barry Keoghan Quotes

I did take some cooking classes in high school. Boys weren't really supposed to take them. I had to risk being made fun of.

As Latinas, we tend to be overly partial considering stereotypes. I'm interested in being naughty and edgy.

Here in England, my becoming an actor was considered unimaginative.

Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman.'

I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.

I love acting. I had a backup option in writing or direction. But I have gone on to become an actor.

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.

I did not choose acting as a career.

I grew up seeing so many stereotypes on TV, and I didn't want to play that as well.

I hate to say it, but one of the worst things you could be called when I was younger was unfeminine.

I think the Hindi film heroine is stereotypical. It is nice to have an opportunity to have that freedom to not to do that anymore.

I had never dreamt of acting.

I really don't want to be a stereotype.

I was the first person in the family to be an actor.

I am scared of stepping out of the house, because of what people will think of me. In our society, men and women are looked at differently anyway, and that's even truer if you are an actress.

It is a privilege that women fancy me, but I cannot sustain the chocolate boy image forever. I don't want to end up being known, like the late veteran Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan was, as the king of romance.

I wasn't like the rest of the kids. I was an artist. Living in a black society, when you're raised around a bunch of boys who plays sports and chase girls, there's this perception of masculinity that's super hard to fit into. I wasn't the stereotype of that like a lot of my peers were.

Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to 'Be a Real Man' anymore? Shouldn't we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?

Asian parents generally tend to channel their children, especially their daughters, into studying and not sport.

Normally, people think of Asian women as timid, but I think I'm very strong.

I was a complete anomaly in this business. I didn't fit into the Hema Malini-Zeenat Aman commercial cinema mould, neither the Shabana Azmi-Smita Patil art cinema mould.

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.

Owing to cultural beliefs, girls have been taught to be small, disappear and not take our full place in society. But that is not what we are meant to be.

Push the envelope too far as a female artist, and you may only earn an ocean of ink expressing concern for your delicate constitution, amounting to a caution against playing on traditionally male wavelengths.

I was about 15 when I decided that acting was what I wanted to pursue professionally.