Quotes About Representation

I am the first female chief executive of Hong Kong.

I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia.

I was raised on Hong Kong movies with Asian stars, so I'm still learning about Hollywood underrepresenting certain people.

Carrie Lam is not the leader elected by people of Hong Kong.

In the States I might be an Asian face, look different from everyone else in TV and in music, but in Korea I look like everybody else, in Asia I look like everybody else.

It would be ridiculous for anyone to consider me the face of Korean art.

I want to show the world how good Korean players are by playing well in the top flight.

I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

The Big Machine Label Group will continue to knock down doors to break female talent.

As an Asian immigrant coming in, for the longest time I still had problems getting in the lot because they're just not used to seeing someone like me who's directing these films. I do think ultimately there's a point where we can kind of just shed that label and become filmmakers.

I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor.

With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for Asian-Americans only.

I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

You can't co-opt labor issues if you are in the working class.

As a former president of the National Union of Students and a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Redbridge, I have been attending the three main party conferences since 2004.

Labour has an impressive record of delivery for black Britain.

Labour is the party for the many.

Labour needs to lead - lead on Brexit, lead in Europe, lead for the people.

I think unionization of labour is a great thing.

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.

There's something wrong with the Labour party. There's something wrong with the fact that women never rise to the top.

The Labour party is the greatest champion of equality and opportunity this country has even known.