Biracial Quote by Gugu Mbatha-Raw

As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to…

— Daniel Sunjata

We can list a bunch of actors who have embodied characters that aren't their nationalities, and I think that's the beauty of acting.

— Elodie Yung

I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of…

— Rumaan Alam

Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans.…

— Wayne Messam

There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically anybody…

— Karina Longworth

You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage…

— Satya Bhabha

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

Being mixed race in Britain in the '80s and '90s, there just weren't loads of people who looked like me.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I want to push the boundaries on the roles that have historically been given to actresses who look like me. There is so much…

— KiKi Layne

In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully…

— Forest Whitaker

I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything else in…

— Isaiah Washington

I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.

— Colm Feore