Quotes About Diversity

I actually don't want to be an actor for the rest of my life. I'd like to go on to be a lawyer or a doctor, and I definitely would like to get into politics.

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.

My family are not sporty - they are all doctors or lawyers.

'The Cosby Show' - no one thought there's doctors and lawyers who are married and live in brownstones! Back then no one would have thought we would have an African-American president. They would have laughed in your face.

I don't come from a creative background. I don't know anyone in my family who is a musician or actor or singer. It's a lot of teachers, lawyers. Professional stuff like that.

I treat everyone equally whether you are an intellectual, a layman or an auto driver.

Instead of trying to group people into something and have this one assumption, get to know someone for who they are. I guess a lot of people are really lazy to start getting to know people or make that effort.

I'll lead by example and show that gay players are no different from straight ones.

The only way I get a leading role in a studio picture is if Ryan Gosling can't play it, which is clearly the case with 'Selma.' If this was a non-colour-specific character, it wouldn't be me. It just wouldn't.

If everyone can say, looking at Obama, that is he is one of us, is that not befitting for the leading country in the world?

I grew up not really seeing a lot of leads in the industry that weren't like - and I look up to these people - but like Ryan Gosling and Christian Bale.

On so many issues, California leads the country.

As women we are very accustomed to putting ourselves in the shoes of male leads.

When I watch a show, and it's only six white dudes that are the leads, and I'm just supposed to be interested and relate somehow, that's just not that interesting to me.

People are just people; the only thing that's different is the form of government that leads them astray.

How many guys can say they've played in two professional leagues?

Of course I want to do films that I feel I like and I feel like are either entertaining or different sort of value attached to it which I personally lean towards, and that's how I make my choices.

I have a lot of kurtas and Rajasthani-patterned clothes. So I really wanted to do something with an Indian flavour. Shooting the video for 'Lean On' was like a dream come true for me.

In the States is when I learnt about racism and I started to learn and embrace who I was.

The U.K. is leaving the E.U. but not Europe.

LeBron had never interacted with white people before St. Vincent.

Just because we finally have a Latino family on TV doesn't mean we're up there to lecture people about what it means to be Latino.

I never had a black teacher or lecturer, I never once met a black British person who held any sort of professional or managerial role.

I like to think my accent isn't strong enough, but it's funny: I get people coming up to me in America and saying I sound like Mel B. She's from Leeds. They just hear a British accent and probably can't quite work it out.