Girl Quote by Priyanka Chopra

This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].

— M. Night Shyamalan

I don't think of the characters as nationalities. I do not live in India. Playing people from different backgrounds, including Indians, comes easily to…

— Sarita Choudhury

“Nothing as white as the white girl an Indian boy loves.”

— Sherman Alexie

I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting…

— Archie Panjabi

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to…

— Anthony Quinn

I don't often get Indian girl roles because I'm 'not Indian enough.' Which is true - I'm from Texas.

— Tiya Sircar

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

— Salman Rushdie

Producer Ram Mukherjee was making 'Hum Hindustani' and he wanted to cast me opposite Sunil Dutt. But it was decided that I would look…

— Saira Banu

“Luckily, I was not born a white man.1 I was born a socially anxious Indian woman.”

— Mindy Kaling

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there…

— Anonymous

Now, there doesn't have to necessarily be a white man in the lead role. That's the way forward. That's diversity. It's cool if an…

— Ali Fazal