Quotes About Diversity

I would like to make a film in the four South Indian languages.

India is a conglomeration of different states with various languages, tradition, and culture for each.

For an actress, the choices are more if one is open to the idea of doing films in different languages.

I wanted to do films in different languages.

I have done films in nine languages and am known in as many states.

I wish I knew more languages.

I have been working in seven languages.

I don't want to work in just any movie for money. I do films in seven languages so I am pretty busy to be out of work.

Being a South Indian, I think it was easier for me to pick up the languages on the go.

I like all languages equally.

I consider myself blessed that I am multi-lingual and now-a-days we all speak at least two-three languages.

I've seen after-school clubs where parents, teachers and children have got together to write books. They were in a mix of languages; the books told stories of what the parents got up to when they were children and how they arrived in the area, whether it was from another country or from the other side of town.

When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.

I was born in Sri Lanka.

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

Larger people do not get a lot to play in the theater.

Larry Drake - I love his work... He plays a very disabled character like the role I'm playing.

It's funny because, growing up, I found inspiration from watching Steffi Graf and Amanda Coetzer, a South African who was in the top 10 for many years. Oh, and then there's someone I've gotten to know over the last few years: Martina Navratilova.

What I really see myself doing is late-night TV. No woman has ever done it.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.

My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.

I love American food, but I also love Latin food.

I want to represent all the Latin people. I want to do this for the rest of my life.