Quotes About Representation

I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be in the entertainment industry.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you.

I would like to think I've reflected the audience's lives somehow, though it's in this big, false, glamorous arena of movies. I hope people see themselves somehow up on the screen.

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.

One of the things that EBONY [magazine] has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we are, so that's what I hope to do with this show.

The idea of a regular-looking guy who is the lead of something - whether it's a movie or a show - is something that I really hope I can grow towards.

In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that.

I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.

I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.

Don't hate the media, become the media.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

I represent Brazil all over the world. Wherever I go I have to do my best, to not disappoint the Brazilian people. And that I've done.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.