Quotes About Diversity

When people see a Spanish last name, they have an image in their head of what the typical Latina looks like. I think it's important on television to have different representations of people. And I'm so proud of being Latina. I love it.

I'm bigger than the typical model, and I'm shorter, too. I really can't say why it's all worked for me.

It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.

I love directors who aren't going back to the stereotypes, who are helping write and create roles for women that are not in the typical Hollywood box. I'm very, very interested in films that are going outside of stereotypical roles for women.

I try not to be a typical athlete.

I'd love to find a really good Brazilian project, an up and coming director or something. I wouldn't want to do the typical favela story, Brazilian cinema has a lot more to offer than just that.

I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlete - who wasn't as masculine as other guys.

Though born in Los Angeles, U.S.A., I am a typical Tamil girl.

I'm not one of those typical receivers who's like a robot in the slot or outside.

We're not a typical Christian band. We've got dreadlocks and tattoos.

Cheerleader roles are really not my thing. I want things that are weird or not typical.

I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.

I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a big influence on me.

I'm a typical mutt American. I have an Italian last name. Half-Mexican, half-Jewish.

So many people want to have this typical look and this typical everything and it's all the same everywhere.

The funny thing about living at Longleat is that there's no 'typical' day, but I usually wake up around 6:45 A. M.

I don't want to get rid of the typical Dutch tolerance.

There were definitely auditions and even bookings and jobs where I played your typical Asian model minority: an IT tech guy or something of that nature. It's tough sometimes, especially when you're starting out, because they make these roles sound as if they won't be a typical nerd.

There is no typical day, not when there are so many people out there that I care about that can't access good food in their neighborhoods.

There is no typical day and I intend to keep it that way for the next 20 years.

The E-S theory does not stereotype. Rather, it seeks to explain why individuals are typical or atypical for their sex.

We have to look beyond what we see as the typical, the 'normal package,' and just see people as who they are. We all have to learn and get along a little better in society.

It was exciting to play a gay person in high school who's really proud of himself and isn't dealing with the sort of typical story line - the coming-out story - but is already out and sort of an advocate in his own way.

The beautiful thing about 'Bhav' is that it reaches out to a far more number than just the typical set of people who say they like classical music and dance.