Quotes About Diversity

You know, anytime you take one group and you blame them for a problem, there is an issue.

I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.

I grew up around religious and elevator music. I didn't know any better, so I just thought music was kind of bland. So I didn't listen to much as kid.

I try to listen to as much different music as possible - I've always got music blasting in my ears!

If you cut me open I bleed East London.

I think it would be tough for a lot of the athletes that I play with to think that while that I'm showering, that I'm performing on the field, I'm bleeding, I'm fighting with a person that is a homosexual.

Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that.

I don't want to be white. I don't want to be straight. I don't want to blend in.

I wanted to blend in 'cause I knew I was different.

I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.

A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.

I think a lot of the time when you just see a lot of beautiful girls it kind of just all blends in together. You want something about yourself to stand out.

I am of the belief that acting is a form of blended art that shouldn't be restricted to a particular type or even a country.

I try, in my films, to normalize things that maybe 20 or 30 years ago a film would have been about. 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' needed its own film, but now blended families you see all the time.

Every art form has its own beauty, but blending it with other forms in separate ways is okay.

Artists are so blessed as we get to live so many lives while doing different films.

I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America.

I could have never had any kind of creative freedom on TV, so then I did movies! Now, I am able to do all kinds of entertainment... and that, I feel, is the biggest blessing!

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

You never know how your blessings will come or from whom.

I think I am different from most blind people because my agility is not that of a blind person - I don't shuffle my feet when I walk. In fact, I have no, as I call them, 'blindisms.'

The 'block' in 'Attack the Block' is not just a physical thing. It's people; it's families.

Whether you're in a blockbuster or an art film, you have to be able to adapt.

I was so glad that I was able to use my skills of speaking Chinese in a film where the character is Chinese, because sometimes you actually don't get to do that. Especially in Hollywood blockbusters today because they want everyone around the world to understand what is happening, so they usually want you to speak English.