Antonio Banderas Quotes

Inclusivity is extremely important in any art form.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.

I don't have a problem with how people receive the music. I feel like it's for everybody.

I know of no group or class that we do not reach—and we please none.

I hope that I do make music that can speak to anyone. I don't just want to play for a queer crowd.

Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.

In the early '90s, there was an attention to diversity. In this country, diversity was a good thing. People would use words like 'multicultural' and like it. Now, politically, those words are out. But I still feel theaters have to be diverse in order to survive.

Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.

A good song always has to do with the person representing it - how they're feeling in that moment - but I think my songs don't need to be exclusive in terms of gender or race or that kind of thing.

I want to look at my audience and see all walks of life. I want to do something for everybody.

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

Since becoming aware of the need to be inclusive, I've tried to make my stories broader and more representative of our world.

I grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented.

The president is a president for all Singaporeans. Not only for those who have voted for me, but even for those who have not voted for me.

My favorite audience is everybody. I worked in a drive-in theater from the time I was 8 years old until I went to college, and I'm accustomed to everybody can buy a ticket and everybody should be taken into account.

Mainstream media has convinced people that black people aren't relatable. So when a Jewish person comes up to me and is all, 'Oh man, I love that one scene from Episode 3, I watch it over and over again,' I'm so happy. Because that's what I want.

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in a diverse and democratic world.