Back Quote by Sharon Jones

I've done a handful of voiceover and on-camera jobs where I've been asked to 'be blacker.' That's code for sassier, more ghetto, more neck…

— Nicole Byer

It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when…

— Carly Simon

Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I…

— Sophia Loren

I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color…

— Manish Dayal

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

— Ian Mckellen

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard.

— Suzi Quatro

For my first acting gig, I was a hand model for a Barbie commercial that was only going to air in Asia. And I…

— Alexandra Daddario

At drama school, a casting director asked the class to walk round the room one at a time, and we had to imagine who…

— Gwilym Lee

In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear certain colors…

— Rihanna

I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like.

— Lisa Ling

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T…

— Charlize Theron

After I grew some facial hair, I looked a bit older, and I guess that's what the modeling world wanted because I started booking…

— Godfrey Gao