Quotes About Diversity

Going to Cambridge was a bit of a culture shock, I was a working class lass from Batley who hadn't been anywhere apart from the odd holiday on the Costa Del Sol.

It's a bit odd to have a daughter who sounds American.

Ireland is a great place to be odd.

I can't tell you how disheartening it is to be told to go home because the director is filming you from behind and you don't have the right kind of body. As an actress, to be told that... Well, it's just a very odd set of circumstances.

I didn't fit in on my football team; I was always the odd one out.

It's odd to say we had our first African American president before our first African-American-owned movie studio, but we're making progress.

In my case, I am always that odd candidate that doesn't look like everybody else.

It's not odd to be a female in a band anymore. It's not odd to be a girl carrying a guitar case to a gig.

People like to put people in little boxes and if you don't fit you're odd. But they don't really know anything about me.

I think youve got to work out what makes you happy. With me, its that I do lots of different things. So Ive got this rather odd career whereby Im not really a stand-up and Im not really an actor and Im not really a writer. But I do them all.

I was a housepainter and a landscape nursery man, and all these various odd jobs I had, and started doing community theater.

In chess, everyone's accepted. That's what's great about it. You can be a little bit different. You can be an oddball.

I'm okay with being the oddball.

All of my friends are oddities.

Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting.

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

It's important to me that there's not just one story told about our city. 'LSD' is an ode to Chicago, a song for the complicated love I have for my city.

If an offer comes my way, I would love to sing in every Indian language. It will be like an ode to my fans from every corner of the country.

In our society, which is multiracial and multi-religious, giving offence to another religious or ethnic group, race, language, or religion is always a very serious matter.

It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.

I have friends on the homosexuality side. It's not something that offends me at all.

Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.

I have to be careful, as I don't want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn't like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you'd be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all.

We're segregating ourselves because we're afraid we're going to offend each other.