Rachel Morrison Quotes

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

An actor hears 'no' more often than the average person. A black human and a black woman on top of that? That's a lot of no's.

My experience - I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for something, but I've never had an experience that made me feel any less than.

I am not OK with the system that allows certain people to fail or be chucked out. I don't accept that.

How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door?

When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?

Every invalid is a prisoner.

There are many projects that I would have loved to be a part of, but I was not high-profile enough, or I had the wrong look. That's just something you have to expect.

I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

I don't like being treated differently.

They taught me different was wrong.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

You're not going to get every part, so you can't base your sense of self-worth around whether or not you actually land the job.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

It's really maddening out there for dark-skinned actresses in terms of the opportunities we get. There's just so much talent that is being overlooked.

If you object that I discriminate, then I say to you, "You can organize your own club.

I can remember getting rejected systematically by casting directors as a young kid. I felt like the biggest outsider there ever was; that I'd never belong in that club.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

It's kind of heartbreaking when I talk about it now, I still get very moved by the lack of opportunities that were available to myself and to the very few others who were Hispanic young actresses.

I've certainly experienced being treated not as an equal.

People are making a lot more noise about representation and diversity. But I think modeling is one of the professions where people can be kind of racist.

Nobody at the FA has ever explained why I was overlooked and not even asked for an interview.

My phone was not ringing very much at the time after USC, and that was a very humbling experience after being let go there and to go through that process. You start calling a lot of people that don't call you back all of a sudden, and you realize things about people.

I was the first black director on 'Dallas.' I drove my car into the studio lot and the guard asked me who I was delivering to.