I have no prejudice against male or female.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

I'm not involved with the female world.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.

But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

I have no prejudice against male or female.

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.

So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.

The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.

I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.

I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.