Gautham Menon Quotes

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

I don’t think that they would have allowed me to make The Best Years of Our Lives just a few years after I made it [in 1946].

My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box.

I've experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films.

I was ostracized by my community.

Pick any scientific field, and you'll find that those snubbed by their communities, left feeling alone and despised, were often those on the forefront.

In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

If one person doesn't like your film, if he's powerful, your film will never see the light of day.

The term stigma and its synonyms conceal a double perspective: does the stigmatized individual assume his differentness is known about already or is evident on the spot, or does he assume it is neither known about by those present nor immediately perceivable by them?

I am an actor. It's very unfair when people categorise and term me as a television actor or film actor.

I moved to New York and was told, "Go back home. We don't need you. Go pump gas. You're from Vermont. We've got no use for you. You're not drawing guys in tights." So, I learned how to draw guys in tights, and I put them in as many crime situations as I could.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

In Hollywood, you tend to get pigeonholed to certain genres, and then when you try to do something different, it's not always so easy. Obviously, you don't want to keep repeating yourself, all the time. So, it's a constant struggle for every filmmaker and actor to find something that you can really feel passionate about. It's a profession like anything else.

This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.

Sometimes we get too caught up in wanting to do that one movie that will get seen and approved and nominated, that we lose sight that there are so many other movies that are worth your time.

I always felt like I had the word "illegal" tattooed on my forehead.

I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.

Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.