Stereotype Subversion Quotes

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Drax isn't your average stereotypical soldier/warrior/musclehead. He actually has some depth. It was a character that I wanted to play, not only because I love acting so much, but also, I needed to play to get people to actually take me seriously as an actor and get away from the pro wrestling label.

I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.

We will be a normal state when we have the first Hebrew prostitute, the first Hebrew thief and the first Hebrew policeman.

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game.

One of the things I love about the character development in 'Power' is Courtney A. Kemp's subversive use of stereotype.

I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV.

I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a genre expectation and the first thing I want to do is stand it on its head. In the Nightrunner books I wanted to see if I could create a believable gay hero, one who wasn't someone's sidekick or a victim.

There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken seriously. And fairies come in all shapes, colours, sizes and types, they don't have to be fluffy. They can be demanding and furious if hey like. They do, however, have to wear a tiara. That much is compulsory.

Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but I'm from the Jersey Shore.

I'm German but I didn't say that. I have no moustache.

I sort of challenge people's perceptions of what a gay man is, which is kinda good.

My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

I was a choir director for my high school. Of my friends, I was the more rational one, because I was the choir girl!

Waiting for Prince Charming?" "Aren't all women? And you're waiting for Cinderella." "Actually," Jared said slowly, "I'm rather hoping to find the Evil Queen. I think she'd be much more fun.

I've always had far too much emotion to be Scottish.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

Redneck is: the glorious absence of sophistication

Even when I go out to the ring, yes, I am the big, bad heater monster, but I'm out there showing young girls that I can still be athletic just because I'm a big, bad heater. I can still go out there and cut promos like the other pretty girls and wear my hair down and put makeup on and do everything that they say that you can't.

I played the ingenue, of course, when I was young - but even with those, I tried to make interesting choices and mess them up a little bit - make them layered and complicated and not all stereotypes.

British people are surprised that I'm British!