Quotes About Diversity

You can have a fight card full of male fights, but yet when that women's fight comes on, that's what people watch. They're super excited by it.

Different refs judge fights differently.

This country has been very good to us, every time we have a fight in the UFC it's incredible here in Australia and we want to go everywhere. We want to travel everywhere and continue to do fights all over the country.

Get things right for disabled people and you get it right for all, for the whole of society. Not just figuratively, but in reality.

When I was younger, I thought that straight hair was, like, the only thing. So I was trying to be like Naomi Campbell or Tyra Banks. I didn't know that people would add hair for more length. I'm like, 'Oh all these people just have natural hair like this.' I obviously grew up and figured out that everyone does something to their hair.

Shonda Rhimes has figured it out, of getting multiracial casts on television and appealing to everybody.

If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live?

What I enjoy the most about being Filipino is our culture.

I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino.

How often, really, do you get a Filipino story line in a show? Not very often. I can't think of any.

I am ambitious, and I'm excited for my career to grow, and I do want to represent the Asian community and the Filipino community.

You rarely see a Filipino family on TV.

All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino.

I think you have to go and fill your cup and do so diversely; otherwise, then you burn out.

The jobs Americans don't want are the ones the migrants fill.

This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.

New York seems to be absolutely filled with brilliant people.

I want to do music, film, acting - all of that kind of stuff.

Women in Film and Television is such an important body.

I do enjoy doing both film and television.

Although I'm aware of how under-represented we are, I sometimes forget how desperately Arabs who aren't in the film business wish for better stories about us.

In many ways the film business is behind what's going on culturally. We are a world that is becoming more diverse and there's no going back.

It is important for the film industry to rise above ageism.

The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.