Quotes About Diversity

British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.

As a disabled comedian, often my hecklers are also disabled.

Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do that?

When you're a comedian, you're another race. You're friends with all these comedians who are white, black and brown. It's us against the world.

I don't like any female comedians.

In the comedy world, there's always been one woman to five men. I think that's changing, that we're being respected more as writers and comedians.

You don't get white comedians being asked to talk about their race in their shows. I should be given the same agency to talk about what I want to talk about.

When something really affects you, it's hard to find the humor in it sometimes. There's are a lot of reasons why there are so many white male comedians, but I think part of it is that they are able to joke about a lot of things because a lot of things don't affect them personally.

There are a lot of great disabled comedians.

Any comedic roles that I've gone out for usually end up going to a white woman or a gay man instead.

I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.

I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic comedies, which I would love to do, but there are other women that do it so great and they maybe couldn't do what I do, play the kind of characters that I play.

I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

I don't have anything saying, 'I'm going to do this many new films, and this many comedies.' But, it's always exciting for me, whenever it is a new character and something I haven't done before, and that's part of what draws me to it.

I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

I won't ever stop working in comedy films because all the comedies that I've worked in are different from each other.

I do enjoy doing action quite clearly, but I also really like doing comedy.

I've played every comedy club and every theatre across the country for the last 25 years and seen a lot of audience members from different ethnic persuasions.

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other.

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

I love to say that what's great about 'Legion' is that if you haven't read a comic book and you haven't seen an 'X-Men' movie, you can come in and understand it - and this can be your comic.

I've never read a comic book in my life.

I grew up with comic books, and I'm from the Caribbean, so comic books were really a great interrogator of American culture for me.