Quotes About Diversity

I'm lucky because I have never been pigeonholed and the roles have kept on coming.

I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.

I don't really think about being pigeonholed so much.

It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

I think when I got into broadcasting I told myself, 'I don't ever want to be pigeonholed as one thing.'

R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed.

Because I feel like I can do so many different things, and people like my music for different reasons, I don't feel pigeonholed. I think people are always going to appreciate whatever direction I take.

Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

I've had pigeons, doves, mice. I had a cat, dogs.

I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.

An imam should be able to say that homosexuals are worse than pigs. My only demand is that you mustn't incite violence.

I love people who have really long locs. I love how they can go in different directions or pile it up into a big crown on the head.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

The funny thing about my films is that you can make little piles of them. You could make little piles of the movie that were family movies, you could make a little art movie pile, you could make a little action movie pile.

'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

In British music, you have indie, rock... Grime is now one of those pillars. It's a foundation of British music.

I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills.

I could have just invited a bunch of my pilot buddies to go, and we would have had a great time and come back and had a bunch of cocktails. Instead, we wanted to bring in everyday people and energize everyone else around the idea of opening up spaceflight to more and more of us.

Normally, you cast a pilot, and you have to make compromises about being political about who you cast.

Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.

I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'

Nobody knew if the pilot would even get picked up because it had two gay lead characters, which has never happened before. And now every show has at least two gay characters, if not many more.

I came to L.A. when I was 19, and my two roommates were blue-eyed, blond dudes. I helped coach them, and they both landed pilots.