Quotes About Acceptance

If I am doing a certain kind of cinema, that does not mean I hate the other kind.

'Nothing To Say' is a song for friend circles that struggle with a member of that circle who seems to never have anything good to say.

You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they chose to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an experience and learning. I don't think you can begrudge someone that.

Nobody likes a bad sport, no matter what the circumstances are.

You can't always change your circumstances, but you can change the way you experience them.

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

No one is perfect. I would never claim to be that person.

Who does get to claim Americanness? You know, my brother was born in this country. And is he seen as American? So, I mean, it brings up a lot of interesting questions.

For me, playing a chubby or fat superhero was so special because I would go and watch these movies with my friends and would never see anyone like me. I am excited to be that for other kids who look like me.

At age 10, or even 15, it would have meant the world to me to see a Pakistani girl portrayed positively, let alone as a comic book superhero.

It seems only fitting that we have a trans superhero for trans kids to look up to. I wish there was a trans superhero when I was little.

There isn't just one kind of person that can play a superhero.

I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.

I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.

I think you could say that, a lot of players are insecure and sometimes we have this shield around us that we don't want to accept that we have problems sometimes or we don't know how to do things because we're these superheroes.

I am not superhuman, and we all feel insecure at times.

Paradoxically, we have become so ethnocentric in our relativism that we feel it is only okay for others - not us - to think their religion is superior!

The people I hang out with tend to use Macs, not that I think they're necessarily superior.

It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.

My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it.

As long as I don't look down upon any characters, that's fine. The moment I do that - the moment I think I'm superior or that others are inferior - I'm finished as an artist and as a human being.

The first relative I came out to was my aunt Teri, a superior court judge in San Francisco. Her reaction surprised me. 'I've known you were gay for years,' she said. From that moment on I was comfortable in my own skin.

While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn't change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing in our relationships. The societal default is white superiority, and we are fed a steady diet of it 24/7. To not actively seek to interrupt racism is to internalize and accept it.

Gay people are all like Superman. You have to be quite strong to be gay - or to be different in any way. You build special muscles.