Quotes About Diversity

As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience.

I'm always for the Indian in the cowboy movie. Always.

'Rocky Horror' is not a movie - it's a movement. It is a made by the fans, and it is what it is because of what the fans have done.

I've been the movie business for over 50 years, and I've done everything imaginable that could be done or ever was done by anybody.

I didn't come up in a culture or society that looked on me as a movie star. I was the bad guy. I was fortunate enough to be cast in some roles that weren't bad, were positive.

I loved all the other movies, and I loved all the other movie stars, but I was very aware of the fact that I didn't look like Marilyn Monroe - although I still wanted to be Marilyn Monroe. Then Josephine Baker popped up, and she wasn't the maid - she was the star of the show. To me, it was mind-blowing.

Why is it when a woman makes a film or a movie stars a female cast it is labeled women-centric because it is not white, male and middle-class men?

Even in movies like 'Superbad,' they're all lovable kids.

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

It is great that the industry is open to accepting character roles and moving away from the cliched Bollywood Hindi masala films.

Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.

I don't think there's been many chances for people to see a black, gay, pop experience and that's what I want to have with my shows moving forward.

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.

Gay men don't have much in common with lesbians.

When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a lot more stories to be told than slavery.

I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.

I'd like to make one thing very clear: Muhammad Ali loved people, and he had white friend as well as black friends - and the only thing that he hated was discrimination and racism.

Everyone has their own methods, when Muhammad Ali was coming through I am sure people said he leaned back too far, had his chin too high and dropped his hands too low. I am not comparing myself Ali, just showing that people have different methods that work for them.