Quotes About Visibility

Everything that I've done on television has helped me to get the exposure that I need.

The amount of TV exposure we have had and the attention women's football has got has been brilliant.

I've already got 10,000 more eyes on me because I am of color and they're going to see what I can do in the top series. That's enough pressure in itself, so I don't need to add extra pressure.

By branding myself authentically, the eyeballs will come.

The more eyeballs there are on the sport, it will get more diverse.

You know, the health bar in 'Fable III' was destined to be this pixel-high line at the top left-hand side of the screen. No one was looking at it! No one even knew it was there!

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

Whether it's working on five or 10 different things at the same time, I've got to stay in people's faces.

I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.

I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.

I think the most important thing is not trying to fake anything, 'cause I think people can see right through that - they can always see through a facade.

I didn't want that 15 minutes of fame moment like, 'Oh, she said she was gay.'

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

This is my greatest regret - that my music is not being played, and more people aren't seeing Chubby Checker. That's very painful for me. Many nights, I have tears in my eyes about that.

I want more people to know who I am and I want to have the chance to tease my music a bit more.

Representation is so important because it's hard for kids to want to be what they can't see. Little girls and boys need to know that it's natural for girls to love science and tech.

It's very important to see a black gay teen represented.

Let me speak for myself: I think I wanted to see people who looked like me on TV. I wanted to see people who had similar experiences as I had, growing up. There was nobody on television when I was a teenager who I could relate to.

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them.

People want to be represented on television.

People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didn't have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didn't see me do a lot of things.

I'm extremely proud I'm an Asian female and I'm on television, because there aren't many of us.

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.