Quotes About Diversity

I won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.

I can't wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don't have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.

In 'Mirror Mirror,' I played Prince Charming's side kick Renbock, who was pretty dandy, hapless and innocent. Other than that I've tended to play the complete opposite! I've played gritty, hard characters, generally tough people.

I went from such a testosterone-driven show to the exact opposite, because 'Friends With Better Lives' is run by the ladies. I imagine it's close to what being married feels like.

L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.

One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every character I have played is diametrically opposite to the one before it.

When I do one thing for a long period of time, my attention is usually then drawn in the opposite direction.

Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.

Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.

K.C. and the Bay Area are opposites.

London and L.A. are two opposites - I like the difference.

I always loved playing extreme opposites, whether it's internal or external.

Mourinho and Zidane are very different, one could say they are opposites. But it's not like one is bad and the other is good.

When I was growing up I don't think Muslims and Jews were considered to be opposites.

Antiracism is direct opposition to any idea that supposes one race is better than any other in any respect.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

You get a lot of stick in this job, and I don't mean political opposition that is part of your job but real abuse. And unfortunately, if you are from an ethnic minority, that may include racial or religious abuse.

Not every opposition party believes the same thing.

People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.

America is built on the labors of the oppressed.

To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.

You walk into the Beeb and it is very, very white. That is not anybody's fault. You can be in an oppressive institution and not be an oppressor.

I'd like to be the next Oprah financially, but I'm not a TV actor. I'm not someone with an entertainment background, I'm a cop. And I'm not afraid to go anywhere and get down and dirty.