Quotes About Diversity

I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, as well as myself, are real kids. I mean we do all the things that kids do. We're normal. We just like to do different things. We like to act and make people feel happy or sad, but we're 'real' people.

Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.

What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.

When 'Real People' aired in 1979, we did OK in Los Angeles and New York. What kept that show from being canceled were the ratings from the middle of the country, and that's what kept us in the top five. I learned then from co-hosting that it was important to focus on the country between Los Angeles and New York.

Real people - everyone is not just one thing.

Most people never really sat down and got to know a homeless person, but every homeless person is just a real person that was created by God and it is the same kind of different as us; they just have a different story.

If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.

It isn't so much that there are so few women in finance in total but, rather, few women in senior leadership roles. It is a real problem that we all need to focus on every day, but it is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

The truth is that Africa is like everywhere else. There are poor areas, there are rich areas, there is a middle class. Some of those areas are bigger in one country than another, and some countries have real problems that they're working through. But there's great people, good people and a small percentage of bad people - just like everywhere else.

What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.

I've been lucky enough to play lots of real women - flawed, strong, independent women - and I love it.

Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.

People want to see real women on screen.

It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.

The important thing is when you look at areas like physics and you realise that only one in five A-level students is a girl. We know it isn't about aptitude.

Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.

There is a level of confidence you need before the day comes when you realise that what makes you different is really the greatest thing.

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.

I think that distributors and marketing companies realise that there are a huge number of women over 40 who want to go the cinema and see films about themselves. Women of my age don't want to be force-fed with stuff about 25-year-olds.

We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

One of the great things about making 'Reel History' was meeting British people from all over the class system. It made me realise that London is a different country.

Once people start to realise that colour is just that, it's just a colour, then things got a bit smoother.