Charlotte Rampling Quotes

Of all the ways people save time, I think racism is the worst.

We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.

You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.

These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people ask me if I'm a black writer, or just a writer who happens to be black, I tend to say that it's either a dumb question or a question which happens to be dumb.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

We're told that independent film lovers... folks that are used to watching art house films, won't come out and see a film with black people in it - I've been told that in rooms, big rooms, studio rooms, and I know that's not true.

You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

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.

I didn't think it was possible for Asians to be actors.

Hollywood's racist.

We all, white and black, carry various biases around with us.

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.

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.

Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.

This business of demonizing or pre-defining people by the way they look, the religion that they practice, or where they came from is not only un-American but it's going to hurt America.

Black lives certainly do matter - that's one thing. But, it's just that in every profession, there are bad, as well as there are good. I think it's wrong to make cops - or any group - out to be the enemy based on a generalization. Stigmas and generalizations about groups are what get this world into such turmoil.

The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.

I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.

By holding to the first woman, the first black, the first homosexual, the first transgender, the first native American, the first whatever, there is also something else more hideous that is woven into this intricate web of deceit, and that is the built-in excuse to why they might or will fail. It's because America is unjust. When you have the first woman to do something, the media questions, "Why haven't there been more?" Well, America is unfair, unjust, bigoted, sexist, and misogynistic.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.

Maybe when the President tells you that you should be afraid of Mexicans or Muslims or Jews or black people or gay people or trans people, you'll realize that those are just labels, that underneath it all we're all the same people, we all have the same aspirations, the same hopes, the same desires, that we all share the same values.