Quotes About Diversity

I think it's really important that we have diversity - whether it's different languages, cultures - be involved in film and in the arts.

I want to be involved in lots of different things. I want to write and direct, and I make music.

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

Sometimes being your most authentic self involves accepting others for who they are.

I think that Yes' music is kind of on its own out there, and it goes through different chapters, and that involves different people. I don't think it's a case of 'any year is better than any other.' They can all co-exist quite comfortably.

Typecasting is a thing, but when it involves race, it narrows the roles available to an almost comically small amount.

There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a flick, there are maybe two things you're trying to put into that flick. You can put the other things in another time.

We want to be a studio that makes a whole bunch of stuff we believe in, in all ranges of scale and time and length, and own as much as that IP ourselves and generate as much of that IP ourselves as possible.

If you look at my iPod, I've got so much different music. I think that it kind of describes me as a person, just being a chameleon to whatever particular environment that I'm in.

When I go to Iran, I see... that there are all different shades and colors in Iran, from atheist to religious zealot. So Iran is no different than any other country. I mean, they are connected with the rest of the world.

I'm not Chinese, but both of my parents were born in Iran; my brother and I were the first ones born here. First in our family to go to college, that whole thing.

My parents left Iran in 1979 and moved to France and then moved to the U.S. My brother was born in France and I was born in New York, and then we moved to D.C.

Everyone in Iran has wrestled, except for me, I never wrestled in Iran for some reason.

Iran is amazing. It's beautiful. It has everything, everything you want.

Everything that I have is because I live in America. If I was in Iran, I wouldn't be in the UFC... But, I came here, and I got to do something amazing. And that's because of America.

I grew up thinking of myself as an American but also, because of my parents and the Iranian culture that was in our home, as an Iranian. So if there's any such thing as dual loyalty, then I have it - at least culturally.

I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.

I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.

I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.

We live in a liberal country. If you came here from Iraq or Iran, you really would think that we are quite a liberal country.

You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

I was born in Argentina, and have lived in England, Ireland, Africa and Malta.