Quotes About Representation

When I see more than one female wrestling match on the card, I get so excited because it gives us more of a platform to show what we can do.

Asian Americans haven't had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Hollywood, just because there hasn't been that much of an interest, especially in Asian American males.

I think, as a woman and as somebody in the entertainment industry, we have to be careful what we're putting out there and what we're trying to say.

Technology can be biased in how it's developed if coders aren't careful. There are apps that are clearly made by companies with no people of color on their team.

We need a Congress that cares more about doing the people's business than their own.

The Shaun Ryder in the Happy Mondays isn't the real Shaun Ryder. It's a caricature. Always has been.

It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.

I think a caricature is different than a character.

When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie carried on the shoulders of someone who looked like me.

I have carried the burden of being a role model for some time. And that's great. The body of work I've done has afforded me that opportunity.

Oui, dans mon rêve, j'étais un crayon, mais admittedly, I'd more suitably be characterized as a plump carrot.

I think, as a writer, sometimes you do worry, 'Am I just writing, or am I putting the burden of African-Americans on my shoulder and carrying it?' But if we just write the stories that we're supposed to write, that's when we have the biggest impact.

I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my shoulders.

For some reason, not many women go into cartooning.

As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.

Some of those cartoons look nothing like me.

It's important for kids to see someone who looks like them carving his own path. I definitely acknowledge that, and I think it's super great.

Many times, we athletes have a camera in front of us and in many cases a lot of people with that same background or history do not have that opportunity.

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.

Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.

If a casting breakdown said 'All-American Type' or 'Lead Role,' I knew they weren't thinking of me.

Theatre has always been ahead in terms of colourblind casting.