Quotes About Diversity

I always play so many different styles that I don't think anything I do surprises anyone.

One of the things I love about my job is that it offers me an opportunity to step into different people and different spaces and different kinds of work in every new thing that I do. I'm just looking forward to the surprises I'm going to have.

When I came to America, I had some surprises at first, but I could soon adjust.

It's not so surprising that there are more women in metal bands. And they're not just fronting them. There are drummers and guitar players, bass players.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.

I keep surprising myself with films like 'Mission Kashmir,' 'Albela,' 'Farz,' and 'Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai.' All the roles are very different.

Why is being a woman so surprising? There are two sexes. A man and a woman. So, if it's not a man in a movie, what else was it going to be?

I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.

I want to constantly be surprising people with different roles.

I think that diversity in your performances is what keeps you alive as an actor. You have to keep constantly evolving and surprising the audience and showing them that you can do things they didn't expect you to do.

On different projects, different pieces of you will show up. Sometimes it's surprising which piece shows up.

If you're writing a bi character, did you look at a lot of bi actors for the role? Did you really go and find people that identified as queer? If you did, then great, and if you didn't find anyone you liked in that pool, well, that's surprising. If you write a character that's trans, the time is now - cast a trans actor.

I hadn't looked at all the Nobel Prizes and thought, my goodness, there's no women. So it was a little bit surprising to me.

So many things influence me in one way or another. Some might be surprising, but that's OK.

If somebody is excited to cast me in a character that is surprising even for me to play, that is something I'll be looking for.

Rather than highlighting music's differences, Kids & Explosions' Josh Raskin mixes songs together based on their surprising common ground, making them blend rhythmically and melodically.

Scripts specify 'minority' when it doesn't seem necessary. Given this is a traditionally liberal and progressive industry, it's surprisingly backwards.

Pretty surreal experience to see the impact football has had globally.

Any place where the Jewish district is the hipster district is a very surreal and awesome place.

I just don't know when, as a society... it sort of only became OK to represent gay people in the traditional sense, where they have a great job and well-adjusted parents and maybe a surrogate or adopted child. When was that the only way you could represent gay people?

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

I surround myself, not with yes men, but people who have their own ideas and are on board with with I want to do.

When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.