Quotes About Diversity

Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything.

Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus - I put Issa Rae in that category of comic genius.

I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.

I like a lot of international people. Julie Taymore, the American director - she's one of the most exciting directors I've seen.

Maharashtrians in America have a Maharashtra mandal every year. You know when they celebrate it? On July 4, the American Independence Day. That's respect for local culture.

I think it's always been sort of difficult for people of color to celebrate the Fourth of July and really understand what that means.

The Internet is so crazy, and you're exposed to so many things. In an hour, you can really jump around.

It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

Doing the same thing day in, day out. It's just so boring. I like to jump from different things.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.

As a director, just to be able to jump in to do something that's different, and to explore comedy and be challenged by that, is great. Some directors never get that opportunity.

I'm a little Italian girl from New Haven who, as an actor, gets to jump classes through language.

We've never been squeaky-clean from the jump. We've never been Disney or Sesame Street, you know.

At the end of the day, maybe I'm not like the other guys. Maybe I'm not as fast as them. I cannot jump as high as them. But it's been 11 years for me now. You just play different.

I don't want to do roles in films which I have already done on TV. What is the point of jumping to films and doing the same thing?

I'm not limited to running or jumping or catching footballs.

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.

Film fests are an opportunity to see different kinds of films that you usually don't get to watch. When I'm part of a jury, then I get to judge films, but otherwise I attend festivals to watch two or three films a day and network with a gathering of cinema lovers from all over.

I'm just as much into Emperor as I am Alice Cooper.

In our eyes, heroes, gods, masters do not exist. We love and respect every musician, whether from the past, the future, or... someone who doesn't yet exist... just as much as birdsong interests us.

Women are capable of accomplishing just as much as men are but aren't always given the same attention and opportunity.

Black lives matter just as much as White lives matter, just as much as Hispanic lives matter.

What I liked about 'Get Out,' which is so rare, is that there's just as much focus on getting to know and care about these characters on top of the film being clever and scary.