Quotes About Diversity

If I'm playing an Indian in a Hollywood film, I won't do it in any funny Indian accent.

Why is it when a white actor or even a black actor does a British accent, it's considered art?

I remember early in my career people telling me I needed to change my accent, that I needed to sound more professional, more BBC perhaps, but I think if I wasn't from Middlesbrough I wouldn't have done as well as I have.

I find the scouse accent a bit difficult, but I will try my best.

I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent.

As a Scotsman, my accent can sometimes be difficult for people to understand.

I could never get cast with an Indian accent. I was not getting cast.

I love accents.

I can do accents really well.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

I love playing characters with different accents. It's a lot of fun.

I'm obsessed with accents.

Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.

Any racism towards anybody, it's not acceptable.

I grew up in the '60s and '70s, where it was still acceptable to say, 'Well, you're not academic, so that's fine, you'll do it some other way.'

I've definitely accepted the fact that I'm not normal.

I don't want to hide who I am and want to be accepted fully for all that I am.

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!

In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's it. So let's just get on with it, really.

I am so grateful that the public has given me this gift. They look at me as a person - not as a race or a color. The word for it is freedom - to be accepted as me.

The world of dance is where I felt accepted as a human being.

It's great that now people can be accepted and the LGBT community can open up and share with the people where they come from.

I think that other girls and boys my age will maybe see that I'm so accepting and be accepting of other people, too.

Being in the beauty industry, since there wasn't many men in makeup it was weird and obviously at beauty events we would get weird looks. But over time it's been amazing seeing how accepting everyone is when it comes to boys wearing makeup.