Neil Patrick Harris Quotes

Demographics are changing and we have to change, not necessarily our core believes, but the tone of our message and the intensity…. Long term, conservative principles if they are to be successful and implemented there has to be a concerted effort to reach out to a much broader audience than we do today.

What I'm most proud of about 'Girl Meets World' is that it's going to appeal to all different demographics.

At my shows, I've been fortunate to see every walk of life.

The only people I don't reach on a very personal level are straight white men. They don't really need another entertainer dedicated for them exclusively, so they're fine.

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.

In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.

I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place.

'Garage Magazine' has a strong track record of promoting diversity and racial and gender equality in the worlds of art and fashion and will continue in our mission to stir positive debate on these and other issues.

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.

That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters, and yet so many people related to her character and loved the story. So I really think as long as you have a good story that relates to a lot of people, it doesn't matter what ethnicity it is.

I really like when different stories are represented, it's not just the same kind of person, and when there's humor in it, and there's relationships.

What's incredible about 'Hamilton,' and the reason you can't get a ticket, is because everyone's responding to it. Everyone is seeing a bit of themselves in it.

Our shows are more fun when there aren't barriers.

We want to make tennis look like America when it comes to cultural backgrounds.

You always want to make sure that your work can touch as many people as possible. Whether it's young guys, young girls, you never know where it's going.

Cinema is diversifying; there's room for every kind of cinema today.

'La Cage' has got a broad appeal. It obviously appeals to the gay community, but it's also a good, fun show that appeals across a broad audience, a great big mixture.

We're not just three guys in a rap act. We want all sorts of people at our gigs.

I don't think that 'Vida' is just for Latinos. I don't think 'One Day at a Time''s just for Latinos.

At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.' But anything can happen to a Chinese American girl - just as much of the canon of English literature involves white men or women.

Our work should be a reflection of society, and if you're not concerned with including all of society, then I don't really know what you're doing making art in the first place.