Quotes About Representation

Models need to be unionized.

Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models.

I think the rise of Asian models is an absolutely beautiful thing.

I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.

I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.

Growing up as a South Asian-American, I didn't have any female role models.

Some Korean models may be seen in European Fashion Week, but it is hard to find them in New York.

We don't have glamour models in Canada at all.

Your look changes depending on your confidence, and then your beauty changes. When I first came to New York, all the people were saying, 'You look so Asian because you have a different eye shape.' They didn't really understand because they didn't really see that many Asian models.

I believe women need to hear stories and see images that they can identify with, not media-fabricated ideals that even the 'role models' themselves can't live up to.

From the very beginning, I had a lot of female role models in music. I would go to shows, and there were always women fronting bands and playing guitar or backing up and playing drums or bass in a band. That probably contributed to my belief in myself to go out and perform for people.

It is draining when you have a child, and there aren't many women directors with kids out there as role models.

I don't believe in models that say you just knock on this door, you just go to this community, and you'll get elected. I think you go everywhere, and you listen to everybody. Everybody's got ideas.

All of my role models as an artist have always been women actors.

All that young people have to look up to are older role models, and I think it's important to have people like myself show that it's OK to be who you are when you're young.

We need a lot more positive Latin role models in movies and in television. They exist! It's not fiction.

We talk sometimes about the impact we hope we're having, that little girls - and boys - at home are watching us on TV. We can be role models.

For the women's team, our job is to be professional footballers for club and country and be the best role models we can be.

I didn't have role models to look up to because there was no access to them.

Many women in politics say they had very few, if any, female role models.

I didn't grow up with a lot of role models necessarily when I started out - there weren't many people who looked like me on TV. Not in England.

In my day, there were 20 models in all of India, three of whom were male. One of whom was me.

There are great female role models out there, and I just feel very proud to be able to represent them in my work.

I've been able to work on shows with amazing role models, amazing actors, incredible female filmmakers.