ethnic appearance Quotes

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

They say I look like a different ethnicity, and nobody's been recognizing me.

I look Asian. I need to go to Japan.

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I'm blonde and blue-eyed, people who aren't Hispanic can't believe I am. And people who are Hispanic always think I'm not, because I don't look like them. Being Latin is part of who I am and I bring that part to every role.

I've got Indian looks, but there is nothing in my background.

I could play Arab roles, even German roles, Italian roles because I had that look.

My skin's too white." she said. Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand.

I didn't get the Russian Jew part because they didn't think I looked Russian or Jewish enough - and, mind you, I am both Russian and Jewish - so I was cast as the racist Mexican.

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.

I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.

I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

Also because I'm ambiguously ethnic looking, you know, I come to New York and I can be anything. People generally think I'm half of whatever they are.

Strangely, or maybe not so strangely, a lot of the roles that I am offered are of Muslim characters, maybe because I looked a certain way in 'Neerja.' But I am actually Parsi.