Quotes About Diversity

I am always fascinated by India.

I'm not too interested in books about India.

Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

My mother was Indian, brought up in Delhi. My grandparents were born in Bow and Poplar.

I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar.

Alex, who I play on 'Quantico' - that part wasn't written for an Indian girl. So they changed her background to make her half Indian and half Caucasian.

I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.

I've got Indian looks, but there is nothing in my background.

We are not white-skinned, we are not like them. We do not look like them. Why do we need to act in Hollywood movies? And I don't even think that Indian actors here want to do English movies.

I don't want to go and play a cliched Indian girl.

Being of Indian heritage is a challenge - and it's a blessing as well sometimes - because being good isn't good enough. You have to be exceptional to play different characters.

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.

It is very good to bridge the gaps between Indian and international cinema.

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

Indian business women like Indra Nooyi, Chanda Kochhar, Naina Lal Kidwai, Shikha Sharma, Swati Piramal, Anu Agha, Swati Piramal, Sulajja Firodia Motwani and Zia Mody have put India on the global firmament.

Since 'Heroes' started, I've probably had about 15 or 16 film scripts sent to me with Indian characters, and out of those, maybe one was good.

Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place.

I love Indian food. London also has great Indian food.

In 'War Party,' I play a quarter-breed Indian. It's a serious movie, but it's funny, too.