Quotes About Diversity

I found dozens of albums I loved every year of the early 70s and more in the late 70s and more still in the decades since, partly because I knew more about music by then and partly because there were more to choose from.

I'm excited about my own network, BounceTV. It's the first African-American-owned broadcast network. It's myself, my partner Rob Hardy, and some other African-American businessmen, including Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III.

Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.

More often, I'm asked to play somebody's mother, somebody's partner, somebody's wife.

It just brings a different element to the table when you're wrestling with a guy as a partner because you don't know what's going to happen. When you have just a regular women's match or regular men's match you know they're going to fight. When there's a little bit of a mixture, you never know what's going to happen, and I think it's a lot of fun.

Every partner you get is so different, you learn a lot from each of them.

The writer, Ruth Jhabvala, livedin India but was German. My partner Ismail Merchant was from Bombay but was educated in England and he had a different view on the world. Probably they had to contend with some sort of Oregonian-ness in me that they didn't understand and didn't know where it was coming from.

It's awesome that you have a female CFO and a female GC, but if you look at the investing partners, and it's 15 dudes, I do think those people are going to get left behind if they don't get with where the world is going.

What I love so much about being a part of Umbro and the partnership is they authentically let me be me.

We've got gay marriage, and civil partnerships, so what are transsexuals looking for?

There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.

I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

Certain parts are bad in every city, but Chicago is beautiful.

Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women - don't forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play.

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

I come from two parts of the oriental community - Jerusalemite and North African Jews.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

I just like to do different parts.

I want good and different parts, different from what I've done.

I want men to be asking to play great female parts!

What you are is what you are, and I don't think you should ever fight it. But as an actor, I feel lucky to play different parts.