Quotes About Representation

Young people deserve to be portrayed with depth.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

I never want to make any characters one-dimensional, especially as women can often be portrayed as the dark one or the evil one.

The characters I've always been drawn to are real and flawed. That's not how women have always been portrayed.

I think that 'Gilmore Girls' did so many things well, and it was a very feminist show in a time when that wasn't really being portrayed at all.

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going to carry some of that way of thinking with you.

Being northern is fantastic but the positive associations I have - about being from a hard-working, funny and friendly community - aren't always portrayed in that way.

I'm getting really fed up with the way that girls and women get portrayed a lot of the time.

We shouldn't expect women to have it all and manage it all and I certainly don't want to be portrayed in that way - I think it's a very negative message to send women.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

Most important, in portraying gay people... it's just like portraying anybody else.

The deaf community is nearly never portrayed accurately on television/film because most writers never took the time to immerse themselves in the deaf culture before portraying it on television. They also never got to know their deaf actors.

I've been involved in the deaf community for years, and my friends in the community that are actors or performers get very frustrated when they see hearing people portraying a deaf role.

Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?'

About five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and, you know, the black curly hair. That's how I was portraying myself.

I take great pride in portraying a strong female character who is independent and can take care of herself. I don't think we get to see that enough in television.

I don't think people should be afraid of portraying people with accents, especially Asian accents.

I turned down an offer to represent Portugal.

When I was in Portugal I hardly played six-or-seven matches. Although I would train daily to keep my shape. Even then it was really difficult when I came back to get in shape and represent my country.

I don't want to pose either with Obama or with Merkel.

Everyone that's ever seen 'Pose' who isn't trans or doesn't have any connection to the LGBTQ community has been given the opportunity to create empathetic relationships to the characters that they would not have otherwise been able to. That's super essential in helping counter homophobia and transphobia.

For a long time, with a lot of women of the trans experience on television, people have only got to see one aspect of their life. With 'Pose,' it's broadened the scale.

If I had seen 'Pose' in the years I was a kid, it would have probably meant everything to me.

I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.