I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.
In mainstream media, everything gets turned into a stereotype of ourselves.
I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.
I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.
The reality that everyone is stereotyped - every one gets typecast, so you have to work to get out of that.
Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.
I resent ever being stereotyped.
We cannot generalise anything in life. We cannot say media people are like this, film people are like this, or doctors are like this.
When you are generalizing, and when your goal is to malign and to say things about an entire group - there are tens of millions of Scientologists in the world - when you decide to blanket statement that 'Scientology is evil,' you are my enemy.
