Media Stereotyping Quotes

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

In mainstream media, everything gets turned into a stereotype of ourselves.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

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.

The Indian media has a very negative approach and very negative thoughts.

There was a really long period of time when, if the newspapers ever referred to me, even if I was talking about, I don't know, cake making, they would put 'lesbian Sandi Toksvig.'

You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.

Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'