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I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

I became stereotyped.

I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast.