Quotes About Representation

I have been very fortunate to play parts that have not been just, 'Oh, you need a fat person to play this part.' It's been a secondary thing or we made a feature of it.

The strength of 'The Gift' is that the people featured and their stories are given the space to speak for themselves.

I want to see different faces on the covers of magazines, the stars of movies, featured on billboards.

Without a conscious effort, all of my plays have all featured gay characters. I'm proud of that.

I'm very passionate and believe that every time the LGBT community is featured in the media, people are learning about us.

I was the first Indian to be featured in the London edition of 'GQ' magazine and it was a six page story.

There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain.

At the federal level, as a member of Congress, you have one vote out of 435, and in the Senate, it's one out of 100. So, the ability to get some stuff done exists as a much larger opportunity at a local level than in the federal government.

Let's ensure our federal government works on behalf of all of its citizens - not just the ones with connections to people in power.

I always look for roles that make me feel good about being a girl. I have to say that there are a lot of roles out there that make me feel really bad about being a girl. You can imagine what the things are and I shall not go into detail.

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

America's leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

Being on a show with a female lead is amazing for me. I love that.

For every movie that you go see, how many leading male roles are there in any given movie, and how many leading female roles are there? There may be 5 or 6 really good roles for guys and maybe one for a woman. And it doesn't even matter if you're 25. That's just the logistics.

I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.

There's a female writer-performer thing going on in TV right now.

Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.

I wish that there were more female driven films, female-centric films being made.

I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.

I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.

What's so great about playing a female lead, especially in law enforcement, is that these women do exist, and they're really quite interesting. They're fascinating.

Digital shows have played a big part in empowering female artists. I'm very lucky to be a part of such projects.

It's interesting that female artists are underrepresented in exhibitions. That may be down to the fact that the people in power in the art world are men.

In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.