Quotes About Diversity

In my career, I thought I've never wanted to get anywhere in particular. I just wanted to work with interesting people on interesting projects.

There are many projects I couldn't get off the ground because they didn't have white heroes. It's a problem that everyone who's been working in Hollywood has been facing.

Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.

I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to make sure that I do a nice black family film; that's like keeping my home base. I do other things, but I like to always come back to a positive family film, because of all the negative influences today.

As much as I can and am able to, with the projects that are presented to me, I try to just really choose things that are challenging and are something I haven't tackled before.

I just try to keep going and work on projects that are exciting to me, with people I respect and enjoy and want to work with. That takes me in different directions sometimes, but it's all been a pretty good ride.

I like a lot of different kinds of music. I like strong projects, big music.

The reason I like doing these acting projects is because no matter how much acting I do, I'll always have music in my life. I love having both.

I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.

I like playing in other projects.

I try to pick interesting projects, the kind of projects that I would want to watch.

If you look at what I do, there's no consistency. The consistency is that there is no consistency. I do projects that are good and not so good.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.

Should 50 per cent of Telefilm's projects be helmed, produced, or written by women? I think so.

For me, I actively look for projects that showcase people of color.

In order for a person of color to get on a cover of a magazine, they have to do something prolific - winning an Oscar, being the first billionaire, you know, or whatever. I think it's becoming more natural that somebody can get on the cover of a magazine just because they're an amazing person. That's what it should be.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

When I was growing up, white people made fun of me. So it was always strange to me as I would gain prominence in hip hop, white people kind of accepted me more and they would talk to me more. It's so weird to me, growing up, thinking about that in my life. It really is a complete change.

What we need to focus on is not that we're not nominated, but that we have many more Latinos that are in prominent positions on shows all across the dial than ever before.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

Of course, I'm all for women getting to play prominent parts.

When Ellen came out on national television, it was the first time I'd ever seen an LGBT woman represented in such a prominent way.

I've always been very passionate about trying to have Asian-Americans or Asian faces be more prominent in mainstream media.