Travis Knight Quotes

There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is white working class guys.

When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.

I grew up in musicals, and if you looked like me and sounded like me, you were the character; you were never at the center of the story.

In movies and television shows, there has never been a really good Chinese lead. So often the Chinese look like they are very scared and shy.

Everyone likes to stereotype things or write them off as not that serious or "this is just a phase," especially when you're that young. The music was never a phase, but the wardrobe was certainly a phase, so I think that may have overshadowed the music in the beginning, for sure. I was so outrageous.

When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

Everybody is a dumb blonde at heart.

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

The problem was, I was labeled as trouble - so I was like, 'Trouble? I'll show you trouble. You want trouble, well here it is!' No matter what label they give you, the best thing you can do is prove them wrong.

Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren't at a place yet where they are able to learn ... And it's exactly what I'm trying to fight.

To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.

I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.

Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.

The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.

If you're a guy over 30 by yourself in the hotel pool, you automatically look like a murderer who's just relaxing after he strangled a family. "Yeah-that dad was a tough one to kill."

I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit.

It's hard when you look a certain way. I look All-American, sweet, girl-next-door, so naturally those are the parts that are going to land on my doorstep.

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.

When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.

Unless you do the same thing, it's tough for stereotypes to stick. That said, whatever you've done that's most popular at a given moment is what people think "you do."