Quotes About Diversity

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman."

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.

I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.

[New York] gives you room to be weird; you can be yourself and you can wear whatever you want. No one is really going to judge you because everyone is doing their own thing.

I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.

When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.

Getting to do different genres of movies means you're gonna have different types of situations. So I want to try and do every type of genre there is out there.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as much as you enjoy something that's very simple pop.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone.

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

We are in an interesting place in the evolution in our community in the people want to be indistinguishable from heterosexuals. I love the individuality I see in our community.

When the dialogue is on point and I feel like the overall story and message is really serving something that's socially progressive, it really makes me want to be a part of it.

And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.

I would love to make an album full of ballads. For a listener, I want to have variety on there.

Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!

Every fashion photographer is completely different; the fact that they are so different is what makes it fun. You don't want to get bored.

I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.