No matter how cutting-edge Hollywood may seem, it is still delayed in how it views people: If producers do not perceive me as an Iranian girl, then I cannot play an Iranian girl. If you aren't perceived as a full black girl, then it makes it more difficult to play a black girl on TV.

Picture Quotes Maker

Top Authors

• Pope John Paul Ii

  Priest

  Tuesday, May 18, 1920
  Saturday, Apr 02, 2005

• Yogi Berra

  Baseball Manager

  Tuesday, May 12, 1925
  Tuesday, Sep 22, 2015

• Steve Jobs

  Entrepreneur

  Thursday, Feb 24, 1955
  Wednesday, Oct 05, 2011

• Thomas Jefferson

  3Rd US President

  Saturday, Apr 13, 1743
  Tuesday, Jul 04, 1826

• Carl Sagan

  Astronomer

  Friday, Nov 09, 1934
  Friday, Dec 20, 1996

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poet

  Wednesday, Oct 21, 1772
  Friday, Jul 25, 1834

• John Lewis

  U.s. Representative

  Wednesday, Feb 21, 1940
  

• Billy Graham

  Professional Wrestler

  Monday, Jun 07, 1943
  

• Edgar Allan Poe

  Author

  Thursday, Jan 19, 1809
  Sunday, Oct 07, 1849

• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  Writer

  Thursday, Aug 28, 1749
  Thursday, Mar 22, 1832

• Winston Churchill

  Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom

  Monday, Nov 30, 1874
  Sunday, Jan 24, 1965

• George Carlin

  Comedian

  Wednesday, May 12, 1937
  Sunday, Jun 22, 2008

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essayist

  Wednesday, May 25, 1803
  Thursday, Apr 27, 1882

• Dolly Parton

  Singer-Songwriter

  Saturday, Jan 19, 1946
  

• Stephen Hawking

  Physicist

  Thursday, Jan 08, 1942