Quotes About Diversity

I'd never carried on a conversation with a black until college.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my shoulders.

For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me - and for any musician - all of the music is exciting. And if you don't approach it with excitement, we can't be musicians.

For some reason, not many women go into cartooning.

It's important for kids to see someone who looks like them carving his own path. I definitely acknowledge that, and I think it's super great.

It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.

There will always be cases where one player plays, and another doesn't.

Many times, we athletes have a camera in front of us and in many cases a lot of people with that same background or history do not have that opportunity.

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

Instead of playing something heavily, I play it lightly. Since people like to cast cyclically, once you've done one thing, people want to put you in that bag again. And since I want to work, I let it happen.

I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.

Every sport has its own cast of characters.

Great actors help. Every project is different. Sometimes it's completely open, and I've been able to cast who I've wanted. And then sometimes people want a certain kind of actor.

There is no caste in blood.

We are against politics of religion and caste.

Our party is not against any caste or religion. Our party is not caste or religion specific. We want to make a society based on equality.

I have never, ever in my life practised politics on the basis of caste, sect, or religion.

If a casting breakdown said 'All-American Type' or 'Lead Role,' I knew they weren't thinking of me.

Theatre has always been ahead in terms of colourblind casting.

No, I'm not too worried about type casting.

When people walk into our casting room, we do think about what you do outside of being an actor.

Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington.