Quotes About Diversity

I've built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody's Chinese in the films.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that sci-fi is least-rooted in the particular culture that they're writing from.

It's going to be impossible in the 21st century for anyone to think about anything without a Chinese aspect.

Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

It is my strong belief that the Chinese people are just as proud as we Americans are proud.

I love the Chinese people.

I remember I went through a period where I didn't embrace my 'chocolatiness.' I don't know if that's a word, but I didn't embrace my chocolate lifestyle. Just being a chocolate, lovely brown skin girl and being proud of that.

I do miss the Chocolate City of my youth.

Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.

We need to respect choices that women make.

I got along with mostly everyone, but music school does that to you. We had to sing in a choir all the time, so we had to get along with everyone.

Our mandate is to sing for everyone. We don't just sing for one group or sing one genre... This is everybody's choir.

It's about time that a woman my age or above, if she chooses to go into her 60s as an announcer, she should be allowed to do just that.

I have never been someone who chooses a film according to the language. Since I am comfortable with Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam, the scope of the film is all that matters to me.

While choosing shows, I look at stories and the concept, and that has to be different.

As much as it's really important, obviously, as a woman in the industry to be choosing the stories which represent women, you also have to keep an eye on the male side.

If you've got the chops, people these days are more accepting of you.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

It's hard to shoot anything in L.A.; it's just a chore, but they're great here.