Rachel Morrison Quotes

I have faced rejection in this business because of my appearance, but that has only made me stronger and more determined.

The trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for things.

When I came into comedy in 2005, I didn't even know there was discrimination against musical comics in the alternative-comedy strain.

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

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.

Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.

Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'

Everybody else has been seen, been proven.

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.

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.

Nothing would catch me off guard, because I understand the world I live in. I understand it very well. And the world I live in is not necessarily a fair or just world. I have dealt with these injustices for the bigger part of my life.

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

I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

There are guys who are way taller than me, weigh a lot more than me, are stronger than me, not faster than me but all other aspects people get recognized and looked at and opportunities based on how they look. I've been fighting that battle my entire lifetime.

Whenever I used to do sports at school, there were those children who were picked last. I just wasn't picked at all.

I think losing out on jobs and, you know, being judged on your appearance... I definitely grew a second skin and got used to it, but more so now, I've realised it definitely contributed to a lot of things I feel about myself.

We had a severely autistic kid in my class, and I was always picked last in gym class, even after him. Naturally, that made me feel pretty bad as an eight-year-old.

Where I grew up, we had light-skinned models but not dark. Every time I would talk about being a model with my friends, they would start laughing out loud.

I can be lazy, don't get me wrong. But it's not laziness that's holding me back, it's the system where I don't fit in.

What I hear from folks all the time is 'us against them.' It is a core part of what they feel is happening with our government. Investing here, but not there. Listening to some, but not nearly enough. Going into certain neighborhoods, but not others. That divide is something we have to categorically reject.

The league wants certain things. They want certain guys. I'm just not one of them. But I can't help the way I am.

Life - life is not fair. But it can be extraordinary.

there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth?

I never ever felt that I was unfairly treated.