Xavier Dolan Quotes

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

I've realized that I can't control what the hell everyone else is gonna do. People are crazy. People want different things.

Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving.

Most of us, when imagining an All-American, wouldn't picture a man who looked like me. Not even I would.

Kids used to say stuff all the time about how I was different.

We're all different; we all have our ways of understanding ourselves and the way we live our lives and struggle with our humanity.

Humor is based on the way a man looks at life's ironies, and being a member of a minority group can certainly be ironic.

I love everything about the human experience.

I do not think of myself as a standard bearer for Asian players. I just try to work hard for myself.

Family things are always tough, and they're always tough to address, let alone on a TV show.

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

Many of the people I know and that you know are very complex human beings, and it's not all about race. Everything isn't a question of race. Everything isn't a question of economics at the very base level.

Instead of trying to group people into something and have this one assumption, get to know someone for who they are. I guess a lot of people are really lazy to start getting to know people or make that effort.

I need to point out that African-Americans are not a monolith and do not operate in groupthink.

I'm very proud that I can be myself. I'm not trying to be Arabic, I'm just being me, and I happen to be Arabic. I think that might be refreshing to some people, and it's a bit more realistic than these pantomime villains we've seen before.

Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

People want to call me racist for doing the Bon Qui Qui character, and I'm like, 'Look, Bon Qui Qui is a representation of a hood chick. That's it.' There are lots of hood chicks out there: some are black, some are Mexican, some are Salvadorian, and some are white.

A lot of kids can't identify with the things I've done and where I'm from and who I am as an individual. That's why I've tried to be a person and live my life in a way that can be identified by all cultures.

If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects, poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that.

I make such a good statistic, somebody should study me now; somebody's gotta be interested in how I feel, just cause I'm here, and I'm real.

I know, for a fact, that I'm a very different person on my own than I am with someone else. We are different with each other. These things are constantly adjusted. And that's true of humans. That's not just true of famous people.

Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a State are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to these peculiarities.

As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.