Quotes About Representation

Designers still won't dress me, and if they do, they will send a dress that doesn't fit me because it's the only sample that they have in their office that we can get to in time, and then it's hard because I don't want to support certain brands that I don't feel like are diverse in their messaging.

Irish politicians are very accessible to the public, just the messenger boys for the local constituency.

Messi is an ambassador of Argentina, and I am also proud of him as an Argentine.

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

The numbers in women in rock 'n' roll and metal are pretty much growing a lot, which is a great thing.

Science is all metaphor.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

Good sci-fi and fantasy use fantastical situations to represent real-life issues. It really is all a metaphor for what we all go through as humans.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

When you talk about me as a fighter, I like being known as a Mexican fighter. I think 'Mexican' or 'Hispanic' should be mentioned.

I feel great being the first Mexican heavyweight UFC champion.

It's really tough to be a Mexican on 'Breaking Bad.'

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.

I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there.

Growing, up I didn't really have anyone to look up to. There weren't a lot of Mexicans on T.V. except for those in boxing.

When I fight, all of the eyes in Mexico are upon me. It's a big responsibility. Sometimes it seems I am defending the nation.

People who know Mexico know me because I'm so much a part of Mexico.

I'm not the face of Mexico.