Top 222 Representation Quotes

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

I believe that our show is hopefully a beacon of hope for certain people who think that they have been forgotten, that they don’t have the support or representation. We’re there for them and also to remind people that even though we are so divided, just a very open conversation can bridge that divide.

‘Black Panther’ has made me embrace my natural black hair. The representation of natural black hair in the film has made me reflect on myself.

Many counties in Maryland are above the average unemployment rate for both Maryland and the United States. We need representation in Congress who will make creating jobs the No. 1 priority so the people of Maryland can get back to work.

Whether it is access to voting rights, representation in government, or the outsized influence of money in our political system, the opportunity to interact with and participate in democracy is available to some, but blocked for many.

I don’t care if you’re from the right or left of politics – there are core objectives we can all agree on: equal pay, equal representation on the media, equal representation at board level, politics, an end to domestic violence.

I hope we see more avenues for representation. More TV shows and films starring queer people, especially QPOC and nonbinary folks, more mainstream press coverage of our artwork and fashion, and more representation of our interests within politics.

We’re premiering ‘The Neon Demon’ in Cannes, which is the representation of ‘The Neon Demon,’ which is all about glamour and vulgarity.

That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and that they have hopes and dreams is taken away from people of color in their representation.

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

We were looking for representation that was creatively and commercially in synch with our core DNA. The team at WME understands where we’re going, and we’re looking forward to taking our company to the next level with them by our side.

I’m such a huge advocate for strong, intelligent representation of women in the media.

If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.

I’ve always been asked the question of, ‘Do you feel like it’s getting better over the years for Asian representation in Hollywood?’ and I have always said, ‘Well, it’s better than it has been, but we have a long way to go.’

Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

There are some very plain, very simple offences in the Fraud Act 2006 that can be applied to price manipulation. For example, there’s fraud by false representation. This is aimed at people who say something misleading to line their pockets or cause financial harm to someone else.

It’s important to have the right agent – people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.

I grew up influenced by different cultures, sounds, feelings, emotions, and I want Premiere Classe to be a representation of that.

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

The state-of-the-art techniques really allowed us to make maps of how Sting’s brain organizes music. That’s important because at the heart of great musicianship is the ability to manipulate in one’s mind rich representation of the desired soundscape.

People are making a lot more noise about representation and diversity. But I think modeling is one of the professions where people can be kind of racist.

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it’s not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the ’60s.

Women have initiated the change all by themselves. The credit goes to them. Men have had no role to play in the rise in women’s representation on a film set.

When you speak to potential black and ethnic coaches who want to go into the game, one aspect that they always speak about are role models. They would like to see representation, more at a higher level. And any part I can play in that I am delighted to do.

We need to talk about representation for queer people in the media and also in law. And there’s a long history of drag queens leading those discussions in marches on the street and even in bars going back to the time of Stonewall and before.

Politics is not about a certain type or breed of people. It is a representation of the different voices we have in society.

West Indian Test cricketers are among the top world cricketers in terms of pay and remuneration. They are not underpaid. They are easily in the elite of Caribbean skilled workers, earning millions of dollars after, let’s say, a five-year period of regional representation.

We’re a small state. Our quantity of representation in Washington is not as large as a Texas, an Ohio, or a New York. So when decisions are made on the federal level, our voice can get drowned out.

Cinema is a larger-than-life representation. I wish to bring it to the small-screen.

If you’re in the business of law you’re in the business of representation and precedent.

In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.

From disaster relief to representation in Congress, the census plays an important role in protecting Iowa’s future.

It’s really important to me to follow the kinds of conversations that happen around diversity and representation and writing inclusive books.

Black people need to share collective dollars and demand equal representation, and the way you do that is by controlling their own economy and putting money behind candidates.

I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

I think representation is the most important thing in the world. People who are young look up to the things that they see in the media. They want to relate and to be able to say, ‘Wow, I can be successful.’

If people want to see more representation of trans people you just have to look around, because with the explosion of digital creation, lots of trans actors and film makers have been creating their own content and it’s readily available.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

I am a holographic representation in the third dimension of what was requested by your souls that one of your favourite artists be.

Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we’re creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

We don’t see a lot of LGBTQ representation in period dramas because there was so much shame around it at the time. The stories that we tell about that time don’t tend to focus explicitly on those sorts of characters, which is nonsense because they existed.

The thing that made it so hard to get that call from Jill Ellis in 2015, letting me know I wouldn’t be at the World Cup, was that I felt like I’d lost what I love most about putting on the U.S. kit: representation.

Showing variety in representation in casting is super important, it gives minorities a platform and I think it definitely creates a safe space for conversation and progress.

It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God.

I won’t say there aren’t ‘smart’ roles for women, but the variety is limited. I feel the real representation is not widely available in Bollywood.

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It’s a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that’s taking place in the art gallery.

Especially in the first 10-15 years, your regular resume is not an authentic representation of you – you don’t really have that many notches on your belt, so to speak. In a super-competitive job environment, you need to be able to tell a multi-dimensional story about who you are as a person.