Mario Lopez Quotes

I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'

I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.

I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?

I never consider myself a minority. I see people who look like me in Barbados, in Trinidad, in Haiti, in London, and in Brooklyn. So I don't know what the heck anyone means when they call me a 'minority.' There's something about that word to me. It just minimalizes people.

I'm not the Asian kid of 'Riverdale;' I'm Reggie, and I just happen to be Chinese.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.

I always say that when I first started, my videos were very veered towards Indian people.

The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.

I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.

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 love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor.

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor. I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as much black as I am white.

I am representing California, and all of California, definitely as a Mexicano, a Chicano, a Latino.