Quotes About Representation

I can now serve my constituents better as an MLA. It gives me an opportunity to win the hearts of many.

I played several maids in my career. I was tired of the maid after 'Far From Heaven.' I said, no more maids. Until I realized how difficult it was to get a role other than a maid, sometimes, in Hollywood, and sometimes you have to choose your battles, for lack of a better term.

In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.

I feel this heavy weight to be a good ambassador for the sport.

And it's a big honor to be fighting for the title and to put a Mexican-American on top of the heavyweight division. I can give a lot of people some kind of inspiration by winning this title.

Mum used to say that when I went out of the house, I represented her. I took that seriously. So I didn't get involved with a lot of things. I held myself in a particular way.

I want to make sure we have elected people constantly looking at helping the African-American community.

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

I don't want to be defined as the Asian leading man. I want to be the leading man. Henry Golding.

I got accused of misrepresenting all people of colour in Great Britain. I would get told off a lot. 'How can you do African characters when you're not African?' But I gave it a go. Maybe if there had been more of us I could have just been Lenny Henry from the Black Country with Jamaican parents.

The thing about Canadian women is that they seem less likely to bring up that they're Canadian. You here less about Canadian actresses than actors, I don't know why.

I am so proud of my heritage and of being Latina. I would most definitely consider roles in Latin America.

I think that is what all ethnic actors aspire to - to just play a woman who falls in love, or works as a clerk, or whatever - and then, if you want to, to have that luxury to bring in the cultural heritage.

The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.

Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome.

I spent my life playing heroes because I looked like one.

When you look at the comedies that are out there, 99 per cent of the time, men are the heroes. It's often thought that a woman can't be funny, that women are supposed to be sexy, not funny.

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

No leading lady in Bollywood has much to do in a film and I am no Kareena Kapoor who will have filmmakers write a 'Heroine' for me.

In most of my stories, I give a lot of importance to heroines. My heroines are not just glamour dolls.

Young action heroines feel in service of male gaze, rather than being the full complexity of a human being.

I want to do films where the heroines get to perform.

We heroines don't get good roles.

I never understood why anyone cared about the Kardashians until a friend, who's Latina, told me that she liked them because they're a family who look like hers. I was able to appreciate them differently.