Quotes About Representation

There's no conversation happening between plus-size women and designers. The door is never open.

I'm an actor, but I'm also a feminist, and a lot of times in movies there are things that I cannot imagine happening that are on the screen and totally accepted. And I just go, 'Whaaat?'

I'm extremely proud of 'Hollyoaks.' No one could be flying the flag more happily.

When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.

It's hard to be what you can't see.

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

It is frustrating that people have a hard time telling other female stories besides, 'Is she going to get the guy?'

We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people.

I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

I want Latinos to be seen as the hard-working people that we are. We'll take the hardest jobs that no one wants to take, and we'll do them with dignity.

The casting process starts off really scary, especially when you're trying to find a Harriet Tubman.

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.

The majority of the DC and Marvel comic lines are white male characters, and the minute you make Thor a woman or Captain America a black guy, the Internet is filled with hateful comments and people saying, 'That's not what Captain America is supposed to look like.'

Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'

When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

When I was15 years old, I couldn't look at the NFL and look on TV and say, 'Boy, there's a head coach, African American. That's something I'd like to do.'

I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.

It's so exciting to headline a film. It's not every day you see a Latina carrying a full-length feature.

People find it hard to get their heads around nominating a computer-generated character, but every time you see Gollum on the screen, that's me who is acting up there - even if it is behind a mass of pixels - and it's my voice you hear.

Studio heads seem to be getting the message that there is not only an audience out there, but there is a desire for people to see people of colour in central roles and in authoritative roles.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

As a disabled person, I feel like a lot of times we don't get to be heard.