Quotes About Visibility

Before the Paralympic movement I definitely didn't like wearing shorts because people would stare at me.

All my life, I've felt people are looking at me. So, when I became known, it was like, 'I'm not imagining this any more. People genuinely are staring at me. Oh, Christ, now they're coming over!'

I don't know if I want to walk down the street and have everyone staring. I think that would be awful. I'm a pretty shy person, really.

I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.

'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

In the Finals, you want to set a statement like, 'This is me. This is who I am.' You know everyone's watching.

I'm a walking political statement.

Some have said I focus on marginalized communities, but it's not like that was my mission statement. I've just told stories that interest me, and that I'm not seeing enough of, on groups of people and subcultures that are often not seen.

I think that's the place ideally we'd like to get to as well, as queer people, where you can just judge the music for what it is and not just because it's gay. I think it's important that until we get to that place, statements have to be made, and we have to be loud and outward, so that's where I'm coming from.

You can be a great defensive player, and if you don't put up splash statistics, then you're not going to get noticed.

It means so much to me to see Caitlyn Jenner coming out, just by being her authentic self, staying true to who she is, and just living her life.

There are ways of staying under the radar here, and they're effective to a degree. But if you're an ambitious person and you're confident your career is moving in the direction you want it to, you know the attention is only going to become greater and greater.

I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.

You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?

Every single time I step on stage or on screen, I am contributing to a culture in which there's a dearth of people representing folks that look like me, or that have our context.

I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.

Stepping into the gym or going out to do sports is a scary thing for a trans person - you feel like everyone is looking at you.

I'll never forget the moment in 1985 when I was riding my motorbike down the King's Road and I first saw the words David Linley on the sign on my first shop. I nearly came off my bike. It was so incredibly public; I suddenly realised there was to be no stepping away from my work because my name was all over it.

drain economics out of the world, and you're left with few tools for explaining anything. Why is our culture the way it is? Why does TV get coarser with each passing year? What makes certain styles or words or ideas suddenly so visible while others disappear?

now they were expected to walk with a heavy step and newfound power through their neighborhoods. In every other part of the city, however, they were still expected to vanish, or worse.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.

When you're trying to bust through the noise on social media, you do have to be overt and loud.

It's my mission in life to put people on the screen who don't get normally represented.