Quotes About Diversity

Aladdin' was one of the few things that I watched as a kid where I was like, 'Oh, that guy looks like me and has a similar culture to mine.'

There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie.

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven't done already, or archetypes that I haven't played, and to break out of that box, the most interesting stuff is television.

Democratic foursomes don't work in the '70s like they did in the '60s, when there were fewer musical directions.

I always take a fiction break in between business books to keep the content from bleeding together.

While I've been well-known for trying to keep my fictional characters individual in their looks, it's an even greater challenge not only to make them individual but also identifiable.

I don't want to be restricted in where I field and how I field.

In high school, I didn't realize that science or engineering were male-dominated fields. When I got to college, and I was one of two girls in a 50-person class, that's when I realized that this was a unique decision I had made as a girl to go into engineering.

I thought as an actor I have always tried different fields and I've done emotional films before too.

Honestly, I find so many fields - fashion, art, music - totally boring and restricting if you just stick to one of them and try so hard to fit into that thing.

Something that means a lot to me is when people from other fields are inspired by what we're doing.

I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.

If you're in a business where Latinos only play Indian maidens and what I call 'Conchita Lolita' parts - the little fiery spitfires - you do what you have to do.

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

I like the idea of the states to go out and the states to take fifty laboratories of the best thoughts and create best ideas possible.

I never fight for the money, but every person is different.

In the U.S. Senate, I'll fight discrimination everywhere it exists.

When I was younger... we used to go to this place called Rexall to play 'Street Fighter.' At Rexall, there would be different people from different hoods there playing the game. It was the one place that was like an equalizer. It was just about how good you were at 'Street Fighter.'

Fighters don't like Conor McGregor.

Kirkland and Khan are chinny fighters. I am not like that.

I don't want to look like all the other fighters. I've been proud to not be or act or look like any other fighters.

I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.

There's only so many things you can do with fights, so I'm always trying to shake it up and find something different, new, exciting and fun.