Tim Minchin Quotes

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?'

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

I've been fortunate in my career, but, yes, there have been many times when I have been told my audition has been cancelled because they're only going to see white people.

Soaps are a double-edged sword. There can be prejudice from some writers and producers who feel you will lower the currency of their work if you've been in one. You have to rise above such ludicrous prejudice.

My experience - I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for something, but I've never had an experience that made me feel any less than.

A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.

Discrimination is a disease.

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

Everybody else has been seen, been proven.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

I don't like being treated differently.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

They taught me different was wrong.

To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.'

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

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.

Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

If you object that I discriminate, then I say to you, "You can organize your own club.

There's no question but that the justice system sucks.

In many fields … favoritism simply cannot be avoided.

This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.