Lisa Joy Quotes

I grew up watching cinema in my country that wasn't telling stories about us, and we had to find a way to connect, and our references, our role models had nothing to do with us. And I'm so glad that it's changing.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.

You can't just look like one culture and expect to inspire a multitude of people. That doesn't work over time. Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that reality for themselves.

It's really empowering when you see yourself represented in entertainment and, especially, onstage when you're talking about how this country came to be.

The producers, the creators, and the cast, we recognize that 'Hamilton' is an inherently American story told by the definition of an American community; we are men and women of different colors, creeds, and orientations.

All the events that have made up the character and fabric of British culture and everything that has happened to make up the fabric of America culture - art and music - includes the faces and the colours of a lot of people.

I want to represent my color and ethnicity. To be proud of our heritages is really cool.

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.'

Kids need to see their world reflected back to them.

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.

I always say that when I first started, my videos were very veered towards Indian people.

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'

When people see Barack Obama, they don't necessarily see an African-American president. They see someone who is a child of immigrants. They see someone whose family has worked hard and struggled. And they see many similarities between themselves and Barack Obama.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to put that out there so blatantly, so that before you listen to me you know that I'm Asian. But I thought it was sort of cool to embrace the Korean half of me, which I love.

I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.