Crooked Quote by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I get the opportunity to play all different ethnicities and not get stereotyped or locked into one. It's been a tremendous advantage, I think.

— Tony Shalhoub

I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being…

— Kelsey Chow

I can play lots of nationalities: Greeks, South Americans, Arabs, all sorts.

— Victor Banerjee

I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.

— Garret Dillahunt

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

— Chita Rivera

I think, because of my background, which is slightly more exotic than the average British actor, I think, I sort of occupied this little…

— Alfred Molina

I am Indian-American, but I often play ethnically ambiguous roles.

— Tiya Sircar

Because I sidestepped all the stereotypical roles, in a way I've made a career out of not being Asian - a lot of my…

— John Cho

I've been extremely lucky in that I've been able to play roles that are not defined by their ethnicity. But that's not a common…

— Jessica Henwick

I've been fortunate not to have been pigeonholed by virtue of being mixed-race, of being English and black, and by virtue of working all…

— Thandie Newton

When you go to another country, you can work with different players in different situations, in a different culture.

— Roberto Mancini

Anything, really - I'm as comfortable playing an Indian as playing a black woman or a South American.

— Sarita Choudhury