I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
It doesn't bother me when someone calls me a 'dumb blonde.' I'm neither dumb or blonde.
I'm lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing - they had me dye my hair blonde - and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.
I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.
People can underestimate you when you're blonde and from Essex, but it's easy to shut that down. I used to get dumb blonde jokes when I was 18, but when I replied that I was studying maths at Oxford, it usually shut them up.
I was blonde most of my life and I had to dye my hair for a role. I couldn’t believe the difference when I went red. I just felt ‘wow, I’m home’. It’s great. You do something stupid when you’re blonde and you’re dumb. Do something stupid when you’re red and you’re a character.
Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'
It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.
Not many people know this about me, but I'm a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I'm basically a natural blonde.
Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
The studios always had their idea of what I was, and they'd give me the dumb-blonde roles.
It's such a shame that you were put in a category of a dumb blonde, but that's what they did in the '50s. You fought the system, but you didn't win.
When people don't want to debate you on the smart issues of the day, it's just a lot easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox.
I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.
I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's just easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox News.