Quotes About Diversity

If people criticize me because they don't like how I break down one of Giancarlo Stanton's at-bats, OK. If they criticize me because I'm a woman, that's not OK.

Obviously, I respect the expression of different artists. I do not judge or criticize the style of anyone.

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

You can't expect critics to appreciate all kinds of cinema.

I wanted to be one of these multidisciplinary critics who is doing music one day, TV the next, and books the next.

Certainly, critics are not all created equal.

It's predominantly a male society, predominately a male culture, predominantly a male theatre, and predominantly male critics, but that's changing, definitely.

I like a nice cross section of society in my restaurants - the stars, the toffs, the working guy.

Music is meant to cross boundaries.

When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.

There was a time when I was like, 'I'm a dramatic actor,' 'I'm a comedian'... There's no line anymore. You have to be able to cross over.

For me, God's country is sirens and subways and all kinds of ethnic groups trying to cross the street all at once.

Just as sport can, art has the capacity to cross so many boundaries like education, race and religion.

No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

I keep my hip-hop as hip-hop, my R&B as R&B and my pop as pop. The ability to cross those boundaries and do all these things effectively is not commonly done.

Every medium has its own kind of freedom. I don't want to just cross from one to the next. I want to enjoy the freedom each one has. Sometimes, you can do something for TV that you can't do in the cinema.

Sport is something that crosses all boundaries and can really bring people together.

I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.

Malorie Blackman's 'Noughts & Crosses' was my favourite as a kid - it was the first time I'd heard of interracial courtship outside of my family.

I love crossing borders.

It's awesome that we can make more and more movies that are crossing boundaries.

I'm all about the crossover. The role doesn't necessarily have to be white or Latina or black. It could be anything. But it's hard in Hollywood, because sometimes it's all about the box office. Or all about looks and things like that. It's not about the story that they have to tell.

I love a lot of the '70s musicians, like Bonnie Raitt. And I love Sheryl Crow. But probably my favorite musician is a woman by the name of Schuyler Fisk.

I like that I can stand out from the crowd.