Quotes About Diversity

Bengali women have a lot of sensual appeal.

I am happy to do a film in Bengali language as I know and love that language.

I like living in Berkeley, but I know Berkeley's not the world.

I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.

My mom has always said that you have to do other things besides going to school, other extracurricular activities, so she made me do everything from basketball to, well, you name it. But for some reason, dance was the thing I always wanted to go and do.

It's healthy to have interests besides books.

Sometimes I think it's easier to play someone who's very, very different from yourself. Besides, I wouldn't want to play people who are just like me; that would get awfully boring very fast!

Besides having lived and worked in Maharashtra for several years, working in a Marathi film was quite a challenge.

I went to high school in Redondo Beach, so a lot of people that went to my school are from Inglewood or Gardena. My best friend lives in Gardena.

I think that the best part of being an Indian actress is that you can be a part of so many different films in different languages.

You hold everybody that's Polynesian or Samoan on your shoulders. You want to do your best to represent that in the best way that you can.

My little girl was born in Los Angeles, and my wife was born in Bethlehem, Pa.

We need to do a better job of loving each other beyond race, beyond belief, beyond our difference.

You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

I do think if all politicians were women, the world would be a better place.

There's a part of me that's very stereotypically Australian, with the lingo, or for lack of a better way of putting it, the way white Australians would speak. And then, Oh, that's not all I am.

I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

I'm not a big Beyonce girl, but I love Rihanna.

I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.

The bias tax is actually a loss in economy.

I have a big bias to the people who understand global aspects.

I think we have cultural bias and practice some ethnocentrism when it comes to ethnic food in America.

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.