Quotes About Diversity

Particularly as a Jew, I don't like missionary work. I've had it focused on me, and I don't like it. Let people be what they want to be.

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.

To separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of perverted and fusty minds! Where there is separation, there is excessive primitiveness!

I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

So different groups have different definitions, and then they clash on those. So it takes adept leadership to say we're going to work through these.

So you find a lot of these sixth Americans congregate in these interracial congregations. They hang out together at work, at school, wherever.

My favorite TV show of all time is 'The Wire,' which has the feeling of a project-based show. You draw in people from disparate parts of the world, and they have to work together to achieve a goal.

Whenever I get a chance to work in a different language, or in a different accent, or anything like that, I'm game. I think it's a great challenge and something to be done.

When not writing and directing, my bread and butter comes from acting and stunt work. I've been fortunate enough to be part of some amazing productions.

I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

By being able to play different styles I can get more work. I also learn so much from each of those experiences. It keeps everything from getting stale.

Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.

Nation is one. We will not work for Hindus or Muslims, we will work for the people of India.

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.

I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white, every last one is pretty pink on the inside and they are all impossible.

It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.