Quotes About Representation

Half of my employees are women.

My constituents are my employers - if I let them down I should be accountable to them.

Women have a voice; they're empowered, and they're heard.

I like to think my work is furthering black culture by educating and empowering black people.

We have a lot of black British men who are killing it: John Boyega, Stormzy, Anthony Joshua, Tinie Tempah, and Idris Elba, of course. I see them as people I really admire and that's empowering for me because it means I am not alone in this.

For me, I always gravitated towards Jacqueline. I thought she was amazing in the ring, she was beautiful, she was strong, she was powerful and it really empowering to watch Jacqueline.

I don't have to be an engineer to understand we need female engineers.

When I was driving the simulator, out of the three engineers I worked with one was a woman. So it was very difficult for me to turn around and tell people that I worked in a male-dominated environment, because it wasn't.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

The only people who should play for England are English people.

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.

I think #OscarsSoWhite is about there not truly being enough people of color represented.

The idea of Asian ascendancy has entered public culture.

Actors and entertainers can become parliamentarians, so why should parliamentarians not become entertainers and actors?

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

Most of my career as an engineer, I was put in environments where I was the only person of color in the room.

My mother has always been a proponent of equality on the screen.

I'm very proud of the fact that the women on 'The Americans' are written to be equally complex as the men.

We've got to be able to get to a point where we represent everybody equally.

All black art, post-slavery, has always tried to prove in its own way that a black life is the equivalent of anyone else's.

I play for my country and I am an established international.

By and large, the theatre establishment is run by a white majority.

I would get a lot of roles for the ethnic friend and then I would go in for that and not be ethnic enough. They wanted an Indian accent. They wanted something more very visually, clearly specific.