Quotes About Diversity

The argument has been made that smart women on screen are already enough of a minority to make up for the lack of women of color. Nope. Not good enough.

I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

At the end of the day, I'm still an African-American woman in a male-dominated industry, so sometimes you have to deal with people not taking your ideas seriously. But I look at it as, I'd rather have adversities in something that I love than doing something that I hate or where I am not interested.

A lot of people are not interested in stories in which they don't see themselves.

It's a very generational thing: I am not interested in labels. I am who I am. I will love who I love, and that's the way it is going to be.

People think that I'm not interested in doing Marathi films, but that's not true. Marathi cinema is very close to my heart.

I'm not interested in nationality. Players are neither English, French, or any nationality. They are not young or old. They are stronger or not strong.

I'm not interested in making an album that's just dark and pummelling for an hour, nor am I interested in making a beatless record from start to finish.

People think that just because I live in Mumbai, I'm not interested in Bengali films. But I want to act more in Tollywood because roles here are meatier.

If you don't have an academic brain, if you are not interested in maths or science, you are treated as a second-class citizen.

Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.

When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation.

Multifaceted and textured characters are always more intriguing to me. You never really just want to play one note. It becomes a bit monotone and boring.

I don't like to play characters that are one note, and just the attractive girl in the film.

I believe we have a double in every country. There's something about that that is probably a commonness that we don't make note of. That maybe there's only a cast for so many faces, and we live everywhere.

I've been working now for 24 years. That's a long time to be around for playing only one note, and I'm making a damn good living. And if some still think I'm a woman, that's OK, too.

If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.

There's always more than one way to play the same notes because of the nature of guitar.

I can't imagine not playing Wynonna, because I get to play so many different things. In any given episode, I get drama and comedy and horror and all the notes of life, and very few shows or movies give you that opportunity.

Nobody has done Mariah Carey whistle-tone notes in country music that I've heard of, and if you're capable of doing it, you might as well add it in.

Color don't mean nothin'. 'Cause we're all God's children.