Maggie Q Quotes

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

All the Asian people respect me and watch me. But I don't want people to think of me as an Asian player. I am just a football player.

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

I've stayed away from doing 'urban film' because I just don't relate to the characters. I'm not going to take a role because I happen to have the same skin color.

It's people who look like me, just seeing representation of everyone. I didn't get that when I was young. I only saw one black girl that was on a Disney show, that was known for being the sassy, coocoo, that type of girl.

For me, I'm an American and I'm a Mexican. I live here. And it hurts me the way a lot of people talk about Mexicans when I know we're all about hard work and dedication.

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

The American girl doesn't look just one kind of way - not in 2018, not ever.

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

Wherever I go, people ask: 'What is she? What is she?' There has always been an agenda - they're excluding me or including me in something with that question. It is the first thing agents in Los Angeles ask me. And then I'd hear: 'You're not black enough, you're too black, you're Italian - no, you're Spanish.'

It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.

I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

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.

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

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

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

I'm really not that weird. I'm a combination of a lot of different things. Maybe it's just easier to make me look weird than another model who is specifically Caucasian.

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.