Mario Lopez Quotes

Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.

They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.

Being Latino and being an actor has been a unique struggle and opportunity. When you don't fit into what may be a more stereotypical vision of somebody whose name is Pedro is, it can be a little bit harder to navigate.

I was always typecast as a Latina.

It was quite strange that people were saying I wasn't Asian enough. It's like, 'Oh, you're not Asian enough to play an Asian role.' So what does that mean for people who come from mixed heritage? I grew up in Asia; I'm Malaysian.

I don't often get Indian girl roles because I'm 'not Indian enough.' Which is true - I'm from Texas.

I get irritated by the term 'African writer', because it doesn't mean anything to me.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

Watching 'Girls,' it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters.

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

It's interesting: I think, as a Latino actor, the biggest challenge is being called 'Latino' because immediately, the world has a perception of what that means.

I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fit their mould of what an Aboriginal Australian is supposed to be or look like.

I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.