Quotes About Inclusion

I was incredibly jealous of friends who had bit parts in 'Home and Away.' I just hoped I'd somehow be allowed into this game.

I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.

I was the only Jew who'd ever been elected, and I don't know when there'll be another.

Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian - anything but a normal, mainstream American.

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

A lot of Jewish kids do identify with us.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

I tell people all of the time that they would make any show in this business - whether it's black, white, Hispanic, Jewish, Colombian, Dominican - whatever. They'll make it if it sells. It's a business. It's not personal.

I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.

I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

No one in my family is Jewish; no one was raised as a Jew, me included.

I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town.

I'm hot on the Jewish book club circuit. How many black authors do you know who can say that?

I understand if everyone looking at me is seeing a Jew and seeing me as a kind of 'other.' But I can't be expected to see myself that way. That is, to me, Jewish is the normal way to be; it's not a type of being.

Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.

There are laws in this country to protect everyone and that includes the Jewish community.

There are so few Jewish ballplayers, so you want to be a positive role model and provide an example that the Jewish community can be proud of.

I don't feel that Jewish people have a class.

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.

For me, Jews and football go together like a horse and carriage.