Quotes About Representation

It can be difficult for players who are perceived to have turned their backs on England, as Wilfried Zaha has found out after deciding to play for Ivory Coast.

It was just really exciting to see dark people in white people's clothing, or what is perceived as white people garb.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

I don't think there has been a huge shift. Most of the films still focus on Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, etc. The percentage of films that have someone like a Kangana Ranaut shining in it is really low.

When the game is played by such a high percentage of black and ethnic minority players and we're looking at the percentage of managers and coaches, at the top level it is minimal.

America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.

I'm most proud of my heritage; being able to shape people's perception of Rwanda or Rwandans.

My brother is working to change the perception of Chinese food in America.

It's interesting: I think, as a Latino actor, the biggest challenge is being called 'Latino' because immediately, the world has a perception of what that means.

I haven't really ever seen a big budget Hollywood film with African music. Most of the time, it's just Hollywood's perception of what African music is.

I sort of challenge people's perceptions of what a gay man is, which is kinda good.

It's not at all a far jump to think that overall perceptions of gender - and what is and is not important in gender roles - would carry over from life to fiction.

I'm tired of seeing perfect people on TV.

I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.

In my perfect world, we'd have one black girl fantasy book every month. We need them, and we need fantasy stories about black boys as well.

Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.

To get even realer with you for a second, as a black actor, as a performer of color, I don't know how many more roles like Aaron Burr are gonna come along for me.

I want to change how people perceived me when I came over here, change how the people perceive South-East Asians or Middle Eastern or Muslim or Hindu or whatever their identity is. I want them to just let that go and treat the performer as a performer.

Performing abroad is ambassadorial.