Quotes About Equality

Certain stereotypes are being broken: that only people with a certain profile can be actresses or be on the cover of magazines.

People obsess about casting and representation, but really, all the real work is behind the camera. Casting an Asian American into a bad role where they're shoehorned into these stereotypes is worse than not having cast them at all.

My sole agenda is to constantly break stereotypes.

I want our generation to break stereotypes, and I want Indians who are making their foray in Hollywood to get all kinds of roles.

Someone with my name and my appearance comes with preconceived ideas attached. My mission is to erase as many preconceived ideas, barriers, and stereotypes as I can.

There always will be stereotypes that women can't drive. When I hear the comments, it just makes me more determined to prove them wrong.

I embrace my Latina background because I know that by doing so we will continue to break down stereotypes that may exist of Latina women.

Racism is a perceptive error, and what you actually have to do is you have to get into spaces where you're meeting people and perceiving them as human beings and not as racial stereotypes and myths.

One of my passion is acting and breaking the stereotypes at the same time by choosing strong characters of what women are and can be.

The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.

Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

I'd like to see more Asian-American roles where the ethnicity of the character can be swapped to another. We can, of course, play the stereotypical ninja, the martial arts master, the accountant, the doctor, but we can be more than that!

I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life.

For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

Filmmakers have role for everyone today. There are no stereotypical roles.

I'm not a stereotypical gay man but I am a gay man as much as anyone else.

I'm a doer and I just want to do it. Whatever attitudes, prejudices, stereotypical ideas that are in front of me, I will break them. But the only way I can break them is by getting a job, and if I need to start in the gutter, I will start in the gutter and work my way up. Money isn't an issue.

We seem to be the only software company for girls that is pushing science and getting away from stereotypical behavior.

I don't think Steve Scalise has a racist bone in his body. Steve and I have worked on issues that benefit poor people, black people, white people, Jewish people. I know his character.

For women, even if she's nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she's undateable.

My casting in 'Halo' produced by Steven Spielberg, which I am doing, is just color-blind casting; Asians have been questioning why best roles should not come to them and I am so happy about this color-blind casting. I am going to be just what I am in that film.

Now and forevermore, I'm going to stick up for immigrants, and I'm going to stick up for Hispanic people and their rights. I feel like that's just my job.

You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.