Quotes About Diversity

Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.

I've had to take roles that on purpose were not Will-like so that someone like 'The Hollywood Reporter' would write, 'McCormack shows great range; no Will Truman here.'

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters.

But when my mother ran for City Council, that was the moment when I knew I wanted to be a political reporter. Some reporters asked her about being married to my father - they have an interracial relationship - as if that was somehow a negative thing.

I think that as reporters we certainly bring to bear our own set of experiences, our backgrounds, to our reporting.

I think there's no city quite like New York, and I've seen most of the developed cities of the world. I admire this place, its energy. It's the repository of so much history and culture and diversity.

I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

I feel I represent my country: not only my country but all former U.S.S.R. countries because I have very big fan base here, and I have more than a billion Muslim fans. I feel I represent these guys all around the world. My fans. This gives me very good energy. When I go to the cage, I think about these people.

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

I feel that its important for me to be out there and to represent the face. At the same time, for me as an individual, I think the Asian-American face can be crowded with the American identity.

I want to represent Canada so I can represent my mother.

In real everyday life, I don't walk around feeling fat, and if on TV I'm considered fat, honestly, I kind of like it, because I'm a big advocate of positive unique representations of women in media. And so I like how I'm able to represent a curvier body and still be beautiful.

I proudly represent Pakistan in India, and I hope that many more actors from there come and work here.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

I'm a black American, and I'm proud to represent who and where I'm from - unapologetically. There's no shame in my game.

It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.

My job as Taoiseach, and the job of any government, of course, is to represent all people.

Our economic future rests on the extent to which all students, especially those who represent America's growing majority, have access to rigorous, college-preparatory classes and excellent teachers.

I feel like I can represent both countries, in a way, because I have a Korea face, but I was born and raised in the States.

It's super cool - I have this link to Korea, and with the Olympics, I have this opportunity to represent the U.S., Korea, and my family.

I think the reason these readers come back to me is because I represent their points of view. It may not be my point of view, but that's OK. Everyone still deserves to have their say.

I'm lucky to have been able to represent different companies over my career.

I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.