Quotes About Diversity

I know how to be funny to black audiences.

American audiences and European and Asian audiences are so different.

We have to reach out to younger audiences. They need to see how they can see themselves as black women.

I know Asian actors out there won't even audition for a role that have an accent. But for me, I was the kid with an accent. I still have an accent to some degree.

I think I had something to prove to myself, that I could book a cis role and then if I did come out one day and start auditioning for trans roles, I could say, 'Look, I've already worked in a cis role.'

I've been asked far too often, 'Can you be blacker?' I've gotten done with auditions and heard, 'We're not going to go black with this character.'

Some of my favorite auditions have been with female directors.

There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

I grew up lower-middle class outside of Austin, I'm a white guy, and I write movies.

There is so much talent in Australia.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

It seems that people are tired of everyone looking the same on television. And this seems especially true for white people. Even white people are tired of watching the same white people. That's why we've been importing them from Australia.

We're actually more popular in the U.K.; they really get us, and in Australia. In the non-English speaking countries, they don't really get it.

I have kids from everywhere, not just Australia, and they want to be like Redfoo. They love Redfoo and I love them.

I do have a lot of Australian friends.

I've never actually played an Australian or worked in Australia. I really want to change that. I really want to work here - that would be great.

Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.

I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

I talk about being Australian a lot.

My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.

It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want.

Australia's beautiful, but I'm not too into Australian culture.

When British or Australian actors perform American characters, we laud them and talk about how great it is they are able to do this other accent that is not their own. Americans have different relationships with other accents.

There are certain situations, when you're in America, when people understand you better without an Australian accent.