Reggie Lee Quotes

You rarely see a Filipino family on TV.

I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to the screen.

A lot of the time, because we don't have many Latinx scenarios on the landscape, not just in television or film and other media, we haven't gotten the chance to tell our story from our point of view.

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.

American television, for all its faults, still has a black presence in shows and even in commercials. You'll see black people in automobile ads, black women starring on their own television shows. We don't see that on British television.

I want to see more Asian. I want to see more Latin. I want more Indian. There's more than Mindy Kaling out there, guys! There's more than Bai Ling.

If you watch any show that stars white people, white people aren't coming up to them like, 'Thank you for showing my face on the big screen.' Because they see their faces in popular culture all the time.

Point-blank, there is not enough diversity in media.

Just because we finally have a Latino family on TV doesn't mean we're up there to lecture people about what it means to be Latino.

Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.

I challenge you to go and turn on the other cable networks to find a face like mine in primetime.

Growing up, I didn't see that many Muslims on TV and we don't see many now. But essentially I am a mother and that's the job I know best.

I think it's important to always have diversity, in our Congress or anywhere, but you also need diversity not just for women of color who are most underrepresented, but diversity in different walks of life.

When you're 1 out of 5 Asian people on TV, all the pressure is on you and you have to represent.

Having brought diversity to the air in the way that we have with Kerry Washington and Viola Davis toplining their shows, and then shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' and 'Black-ish,' have been very important. I look forward to continuing in that vein.

Growing up, I was very aware that there weren't many people like me on the screen.

Growing, up I didn't really have anyone to look up to. There weren't a lot of Mexicans on T.V. except for those in boxing.

It's far too rare an experience for Asian American girls to see themselves in media.

The fact that I am a Filipino actor playing a Filipino role is crazy. Filipinos are the second largest Asian minority in the United States, and we're hardly represented in the media and on television.

There's diversity in nature, so why not the media?

'Formation' and 'Lemonade' speak to experiences that are too under-represented in our culture. But there are costs to certain forms of visibility. I don't think it is a bad thing to discuss what these costs are.

I try to be as specific as possible when saying 'Arab Muslims' because there are a lot of different Muslims. I've never really seen stories about us in America, at least where you had versions of our characters that weren't framed by violence.

Growing up in my mother's Pueblo household, I never imagined a world in which I would be represented by someone who looked like me.

First of all, Asian representation hardly exists to begin with.