Quotes About Inclusion

Women are not diversity. We're half the population.

Eliminating global poverty will need the talent and potential of all, not just half the population.

Stop ignoring disabled people, we make up 22 per cent of the population. We're here and we're worth listening to.

I always take part in the creative process of every film of mine. Gone are the days where an actor would walk into the sets, finish his portions, take the money, and leave. In fact, I've been accused of being interfering - but that's the way I am. It is important for every actor to get involved with the script.

I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.

I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door.

It still baffles my brain that I actually get to portray a character on American television that's this gay, femme-y Filipino guy.

If you support diversity and think shows should give a portrayal of what America truly looks like, then performers with disabilities must be included in that equation...People have been very good at being politically correct.

In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Certainly, living in the U.S., as I have for over two decades, you see how Asians are portrayed in the media... I didn't see myself represented, you know, when I used to look at ads on TV.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

Most important, in portraying gay people... it's just like portraying anybody else.

Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?'

About five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and, you know, the black curly hair. That's how I was portraying myself.

I don't think people should be afraid of portraying people with accents, especially Asian accents.

I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal and they're not Portuguese.

We might think we don't, but everyone descends from native Brazilians. When Portuguese arrived here, everyone was native Brazilians, so I have that in my blood.

For a long time, with a lot of women of the trans experience on television, people have only got to see one aspect of their life. With 'Pose,' it's broadened the scale.

If I had seen 'Pose' in the years I was a kid, it would have probably meant everything to me.

I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.

I am used to being politically homeless, which I think is a very, very Jewish position.

I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.

America has a black president, but there are no black studio heads, and there just aren't that many black people working anywhere on film sets, let alone in positions of power in Hollywood. That's what needs to change.