Rebel Wilson Quotes

Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities.

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 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 never thought acting would be a realistic job for me. Because, quite frankly, I didn't see people who looked like me doing it. I quickly realized, that's all the more reason to try.

I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.

Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.

I didn't grow up with a lot of role models necessarily when I started out - there weren't many people who looked like me on TV. Not in England.

It's rare to see a person of colour in a lead role. It does matter to a lot of people.

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.

It was a Labour prime minister who appointed the first black male and female cabinet ministers.

I don't think people realize what it's like for people of color to audition for film and TV.

The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.

Lack of diversity in Hollywood has been well documented thanks to #OscarSoWhite, but lack of diversity in the documentary world is less talked about.

I never grew up seeing women that looked like me in magazines or on TV and didn't feel like I had a place in the world of fashion. I am honoured to be part of that change.

I've not just played for England. I've done it for all the black players out there - to prove that they can do it.

The parts that I get to play are not based around the European beauty standards: They're more about character, and I love that.

There still aren't many black women on prime-time TV. Times are changing, but it's interesting: we're in 2013 and still experiencing firsts... Hopefully, in the next 100 years, things will balance even more.

I'd like to see more Asian-American roles where the ethnicity of the character can be swapped to another. We can, of course, play the stereotypical ninja, the martial arts master, the accountant, the doctor, but we can be more than that!

In sci-fi, the Black guys always die. So, it's extremely important to bring African-American characters to the genre and not have them killed.

When you have 20 nominations - 20 names on the nomination list of best actor, supporting actor and actress, etc., and there's absolutely no representation of color whatsoever, I think that's a subset of perhaps a bigger problem.

I walk into a room, there's one or two black women. There aren't that many because the pipeline of talent just isn't there.

I wasn't seeing black girls in the books I was assigned to read at my school. I was tired of only reading about white boys and dogs and wanted to collect books featuring black girls.

The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.

When I was a little kid, I don't remember looking up and seeing so many Hispanic athletes out there.

There's always a wild card or two when you're casting. I'm usually the wild card. In a room of Caucasian guys, a director might be like, 'OK, let's see, like, two guys who aren't. And maybe they'll be the wild card choice.'