Kelly Marie Tran Quotes

I never saw anyone my size in magazines when I was younger.

I can't feel bad about being who I am, just like the girl next to me can't feel bad about being who she is. Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.

I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

When I was in high school in America, I didn't see anyone who looked like me - hardly ever. I just thought that was normal because you don't know any better. So I used to idolize so many other people, like Sarah Michelle Gellar on 'Buffy.'

If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.

I really love being a redhead. Even though it's not my natural colour, it makes me feel more like myself.

I grew up looking for myself onscreen and never could find myself. And I believe that I am supposed to be Toula to show people that it's O.K. to be different.

My parents have taught me the value of reading and self-love through books that have characters that look like me and talk like me.

If I had seen 'Pose' in the years I was a kid, it would have probably meant everything to me.

I'm inspired to post a lot of positive messages on my social media because, growing up, I felt as though I needed somebody that looked like me in the limelight or in entertainment to promote being different and promote accepting your differences.

The last thing I want to think of myself as is anything different.

We absolutely need more role models. I think we need more people to come forward and be proud of who they are.

People only look at my beard for a moment. Then it melts away and it's just another part of me. It's like the most natural thing, that this is what a bearded lady looks like. It's beautiful to see.

I don't want people to think I think I am the most diverse thing fashion has ever seen or whatever. But there are so many different walks of life that I don't represent, and there is no one person who does.

I didn't even aspire to be a model because I didn't see myself represented, even as simple as the freckles on my skin.

All I had growing up was like 'Aladdin,' maybe I could be animated - or terrorist roles.

I wish people would look at me and think, 'Well, someone like that exists!' Accept the difference.

The most amazing thing for me is when I open up a magazine and I see someone I could be friends with and looks, maybe, slightly like me. And I think that's the same with young girls. Because there needs to be diversity.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.