Kelli O'Hara Quotes

I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862.

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.

Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.

For the most part, the only contact that most Quebecers have with the world of Islam is through these images of violence, repeated over and over: wars, riots, bombs, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Boston marathon... The reaction is obvious: We'll have none of that here!

I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

As soon as I would say I'm from Boston, people would just say, 'Naaaah!'

I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid.

The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.

We don't have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from - Oklahoma. We don't ride around in covered wagons, either.

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.

… the idiocy of rural life

The absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.

I meet a lot of people when I do stand-up in the Middle East, and I don't know any terrorists, yet on TV and in the movies, 9 out of 10 are depicted as terrorists.

There is a misconception that I've experienced in my life about people that live in the South. I got sent away to school in Connecticut in the late Eighties, and kids were honestly asking me, 'Do people there wear shoes?'

I've run into people who say, 'I know what you're like: You're a Boston guy.' That's so weird. This person who doesn't know anything about me thinks they know a lot because of the city I grew up in, which, to me, is a meaningless label. There are all kinds of people from Boston.

I'm always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don't know what they are.

If you want to underestimate me because I speak like a Mancunian, like the people I grew up with, then so be it at your peril.

You can tell a dumb guy a mile away.