Actors Quote by Denzel Washington

I believe it's important to have equal opportunities as a black actor. My way of fighting for it is through my art, by not…

— Malachi Kirby

So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as…

— Rachel True

The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come…

— Whoopi Goldberg

A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because they don't…

— Elvis Mitchell

At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those are the…

— Martine Syms

One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that…

— Georg Stanford Brown

When you're a Black actress, the box that we often get put in is so small. And me being a dark-skinned Black actress, the…

— KiKi Layne

There are certain directors who just don't cast diversely in prominent roles. Ever. Often it's just because they don't have a diverse social circle,…

— O. T. Fagbenle

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

— Chadwick Boseman

It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just…

— Amandla Stenberg

Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them.

— Ruby Dee

It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted towards the niche…

— Amandla Stenberg