Danielle Macdonald Quotes

When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.

It's very important to me that people get to see themselves in stories. When someone tells me they've never seen themselves, I have a new goal.

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

I remember seeing 'Snow White' and saying to my mother, 'Will there ever be a Chocolate Brown?' She said 'Probably. Why not?' I just never thought the first black princess would be me.

I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to the screen.

Audiences want to feel represented, want to be able to empathize with the characters and the stories they are seeing on the screen.

While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.

A lot of people are not interested in stories in which they don't see themselves.

Thankfully, I already have a mogul I can pattern myself after: Oprah. We're a lot alike. I'm black, I love to relate things people talk about to myself, and people think my best friend and I are lesbians! My strength is that I'm more relatable.

When you show people on the big screen that could be our next-door neighbour or our cousin, it does have an impact on our lives.

I just didn't see any toys that looked like me when I was a kid.

I think about what I grew up seeing, what I didn't see growing up, and what it felt like when I did see someone who I thought that I could relate to, just living their life on screen.

Well, it's probably not something I'm conscious of, but I do gravitate towards characters that are kind of like me.

Every fan interaction I have when someone tells me they can look to their television screens and see themselves reflected in me is a dream come true.

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

Kids need to see their world reflected back to them.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.