Quotes About Diversity

You don't have to be 6-foot-7, you don't have to be 300 pounds. You can be 5-foot-2 and 135 pounds and still be one of the baddest dudes on the planet.

A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because they don't often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don't usually get a chance to work with other black people.

There are many Asian-Americans who are living in poverty, especially our senior citizens.

I think people assume that because I talk the way that I talk that I grew up with money, and then I've had to say, 'No, I grew up poor.' And then I was like, 'Why do I have to play this game where the only black experience that's authentic is the one where you grew up in poverty?' I mean, it's ridiculous.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.

There's an assumption if you have any faith you vote this way, you vote that way, or you're this, or you're absolutely a conservative, and those just aren't all true.

The Conservative Party must be a party for all of its members.

Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows - conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.

I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.

I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.

I very much consider myself British.

There should be no borders, race, colours, or ethnical considerations when it comes to music and creativity.

I never considered myself as part of a biracial family - we're just a family - but my parents are white, and my brother is Asian.

The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

I wanted to take on my full name, which was sort of a crazy thing to do considering that we're in Hollywood.

When you're Jamaican, you don't consider yourself African American even though everyone else considers you that.

I don't feel like consistency is in my life at all, but I honestly wouldn't have it any other way because it keeps my life interesting.

I have done a lot of things apart from acting, probably because acting was not very consistent in my life.

I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.