Barrett Wilbert Weed Quotes

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

Whatever character I play, I want to inspire. I don't want to just be the girlfriend or be the wife.

Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that reality for themselves.

Diane Keaton was a big role model for me.

Acting is very personal. I don't want to be like anybody else. There are positions I would like to be in - like Meryl Streep's, for instance.

I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.

Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity.

Pharrell is a person who has influenced the world. I see myself in him, so I said, 'You're an alpha, and I'm an alpha, and I want to be able to express myself in every way, like you do.'

I've always modeled myself after Ginger.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

I remember watching Barbra Streisand and seeing Jennifer Grey in 'Dirty Dancing' - these were people who acted like me and looked like me. Now it's great that everyone on 'Glee' is so unique and people can relate to us and look up to us.

When I grew up, I never saw anyone looking like me on TV, you know? I'm so glad to see a lot more of us on television, whether it's Mindy Kaling or it's Irrfan Khan or Freida Pinto. You know, I hope, like, little girls across the world can just look at me and say, 'Ah, I want to be that!' Indian or not, it shouldn't matter.

I just want to be fully challenged as an artist, so that anyone who looks like me, who relates to me, says, 'Oh, if Danielle did it, I can.'

A hero that doesn't look like you makes you want to be something else.

I don't identify with her, but I highly admire Eleanor Roosevelt.

I think Ian MacKaye is everything that I always wanted to be.

For me, it's important to be the representation that I wanted when I was a young girl.

Reese Witherspoon made me better. Just working with her, being with her, I learned so much. I want to be like her.

I've always been a big Cate Blanchett fan. Such a wonderful role model, the way she carries herself through her profession. She has so much grace to her, and so much intelligence. I've also always been a big Katharine Hepburn fan.

I have always been a fan of Salvador Dali, but Amrita Sher-Gil, who was an Indian-Hungarian painter, is another favourite. She was painting Indian women, and, growing up here, I'd never seen anyone paint Indian women, so that was really incredible to see a painting of someone who looks like you. I think that has a lot of impact on you.

When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, 'OK, this is someone who dresses like me and I relate to.' I didn't have that growing up, so to give that opportunity to a younger generation of women - and not just Somali women, but anyone who feels different - that means a lot to me.

I'm discovering, and I think other mums are discovering too, that when you become a mum, you don't have to change into this frumpy, wholesome role model who is perfect and loses all of your identity. You can still have the same personality you've always had.

I've wanted to be an actress my whole life, and the - none of the women I aspired to be like had natural hair.