Priyanka Chopra Quotes

When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie carried on the shoulders of someone who looked like me.

I didn't see a lot of women who looked like me on TV when I was growing up.

I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to the screen.

I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling.

Growing up, I never saw any Asian faces on TV, so it didn't feel like a viable option.

There's so much diversity on TV. It's actually reflecting American culture.

Just speaking for myself, when I'm complimented for being Vietnamese-American in television - the only one - that doesn't make me feel happy, that makes me feel really lonely, actually.

I think diversity and multiculturalism on TV and on the screen is such a powerful thing. And to be honest, it's a very American thing.

It's far too rare an experience for Asian American girls to see themselves in media.

There needs to be more film directors of colour. They bandy about the word 'diversity' a lot, but when I say 'of colour,' I mean Asian, black - I mean people of all colour. We need to have those voices given the opportunity, not told that their films will not be distributed or will not sell well abroad.

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.

I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

I've always wanted to be in comedy... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.

Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.

It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.

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.

When I grew up, I never saw anyone looking like me on TV, you know? I'm so glad to see a lot more of us on television, whether it's Mindy Kaling or it's Irrfan Khan or Freida Pinto. You know, I hope, like, little girls across the world can just look at me and say, 'Ah, I want to be that!' Indian or not, it shouldn't matter.

When I was a little girl, there was no Variety Latino. When I was a little girl, there was no nothing. There were very few roles for people like myself.

Our culture today that we live in is getting so diverse, yet in Hollywood, there's not a lot of diversity.

I'm really passionate about representation in film. I feel like the world is dominated by such a small group of human beings. There are so many different kinds of people that aren't represented, that don't have characters who look like them.