Quotes About Representation

Our youth-oriented society does not have a clearly defined place for the older woman.

People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?

Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, too - because they see them and are not frightened of growing older.

It seems that the ideal age for a Bollywood heroine is 24, which is great, but it would be nice to see some older women too on the big screen.

It's been amazing to see how brands, magazines, and designers are focusing on real stories from older women.

I'm absolutely certain that audiences want to see older women on their TVs.

It's taking a while for older women to be the norm on TV.

My heritage is really important to me. I've always had that olive complexion and the squished nose, and I just think it's important to do the best I can to be a good role model.

Even in my genre, cookery, just look who gets on the television. Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Nigel Slater. All very nice men. All white middleflclass men.

The opportunity to represent my country at the Olympic Games is one of the greatest honors I've experienced in my career.

Having the opportunity to go to the U.S. Olympics was great because I was the first Latina in over 30 years to compete in gymnastics at the Olympics.

To represent Iran in the Olympics feel great.

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

The Olympics shows the community what gymnastics is all about.

My father represented India at the Olympics, and I also want to do that.

When you're a little girl, and you're watching the Olympics, and you see this very diverse group of gymnasts out there, and - I think this team, the Final 5, will inspire so many little girls to go out there and do what they love.

It means a lot; I always love to represent my country, and it's an honor to be part of the Olympics and be with other athletes.

I've been living in England for a while, and I am still trying to figure out why we have Great Britain playing the Olympics together and England in football.

I'm a British citizen, and I'm incredibly proud to represent Great Britain. I've also represented Great Britain in the Olympics, so I'm definitely a British athlete.

I represented Mexico trying to go to the Olympics.

Today, Jamaica is known because of just one man - Usain Bolt. Not many Indians have managed to reach the finals of track and field events at the Olympics and that says it all.

Whenever you put on the Canadian jersey, it's an honor and it would be a huge honor to represent us at the Olympics.

I love the fact I am a Cuban American man who represented the United States in the Olympics. I was proud to wear the red-white-and-blue.

Just because two guys are homosexual and happen to be the only two homosexuals on-screen doesn't mean they're going to be like, 'Oh yeah, let's get together!' It doesn't always happen like that.