Able Quote by Daniel Sunjata

I certainly would never presume to play another race of a person. Diversity is important in Hollywood, and I would never want to feel…

— Scarlett Johansson

As soon as you start looking into roles which are specifically Asian, Black, or Latina, you start looking at stereotypes. That's the issue minority…

— Jessica Henwick

I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which…

— Jesse Williams

I don't have an answer for why Hollywood still casts non-ethnic people for ethnic roles. It's something that has to change. Sometimes they'll write…

— Adam Beach

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with…

— Richard Masur

As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.

— Justin Chon

Actors are a race.

— Mads Mikkelsen

As a black actor, you always have the feeling that there's not as much work out there as for a white counterpart, but is…

— Dorian Missick

My general view is that best actor best suited to role should get the job. Obviously when it comes to colour and issues of…

— Stephen Fry

A few years ago, I got cast as a white boy in an off-Broadway play. So not only was it colour-blind, it was gender-blind…

— Sarita Choudhury

I was always asked to play roles where I was the contrasting or multicultural character. Sometimes that worked for me - often it didn't.

— Katy Jurado

There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as normal as…

— Adeel Akhtar