Quotes About Diversity

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

Most important, in portraying gay people... it's just like portraying anybody else.

Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?'

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.

About five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and, you know, the black curly hair. That's how I was portraying myself.

I don't think people should be afraid of portraying people with accents, especially Asian accents.

The challenge is always in portraying characters who've led a very different life from your's as you get to work on the character.

I don't want to fall into any single category. I don't want to be known for portraying drunks or heavies or saints.

I was doing well for myself and wanted to play different roles and not just be happy portraying glamorous characters.

I'm fully English, but Portugal is my home.

We know about Portuguese football, we know the Portuguese culture.

My daughter's Portuguese.

I don't have any connection to Portuguese, but I listened to a lot of music in other languages because I was really into house music; there are all sorts of languages that are featured in house.

If you ask me where do I belong, it would be somewhere in the Irish Sea almost - born in Hong Kong, Chinese mother, Portuguese father from Macao, lived in Europe most of my life.

Portugal have a mix of players and talent, which is what Portuguese players and coaches are often about. It's like play-ground football.

Growing up biracial and speaking four languages - French, Chinese, Portuguese, and English - gave me a different lens. I was always very acutely aware of coming from a different perspective. I think that definitely contributed to what I chose to do with my life.

I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal and they're not Portuguese.

We might think we don't, but everyone descends from native Brazilians. When Portuguese arrived here, everyone was native Brazilians, so I have that in my blood.

Everyone that's ever seen 'Pose' who isn't trans or doesn't have any connection to the LGBTQ community has been given the opportunity to create empathetic relationships to the characters that they would not have otherwise been able to. That's super essential in helping counter homophobia and transphobia.

For a long time, with a lot of women of the trans experience on television, people have only got to see one aspect of their life. With 'Pose,' it's broadened the scale.

If I had seen 'Pose' in the years I was a kid, it would have probably meant everything to me.

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

An online store cuts through the inhibitors that retail poses. It doesn't matter which city you live in or what income bracket you fall into, as long as you're interested in learning.

I don't think I met anyone posh until I went to London.