Suzanne de Passe Quotes

I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red.

Suzanne de Passe

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• In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Movie
  • Painting
  • Color

• I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Beauty
  • Hollywood
  • Sort

• The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Color

• I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Film
  • Special

• I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Racism

• Black is not a color.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Black
  • Color

• Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Done
  • Think
  • Myself

• The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Believe
  • Science

• We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Long
  • Country
  • History

• Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Living
  • Hollywood
  • Elephant

• I like lip liners over lipsticks. I have so many of them from so many different brands, so I just pick the color that works.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Different
  • Color

• Film is better than digital in every way. It has better contrast ratio, better blacks, and better color reproduction. It's a more organic image, which is more the way your eyes see.

  

  James Gray
  • Eyes
  • Color

• In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Work
  • Black
  • Serious

• For a long time, because I'm pretty tall, I was scared to wear heels, but now I wear them all the time. I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life. I like short stuff, big heels, fringe, lots of fringe, sometimes sparkle, yeah!

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• We must be vigilant in sharing our stories and our truths as queer parents of color at every chance we get if we hope to see art imitate real life.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Life
  • Real
  • Art

• When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • Women
  • Color
  • Identity

• There's tons of little tricks that that go into making the perfect shoe, but I think color, comfort is really important and different sizes of heels.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Different
  • Important
  • Perfect

• Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • Up
  • History
  • House

• My muses were all the incredible, iconic women of glamour in Hollywood that I have worked with over 15 years. Anjelica Huston, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lena Dunham, Viola Davis, Rihanna, Demi Moore.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Women
  • Years
  • Hollywood

• Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.

  

  Marian Keyes

• We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.

  

  Jack Black
  • Music
  • Career
  • Dark

• I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

  

  Donald E. Westlake
  • Reality
  • Morning
  • Boss

• We hate those times of weakness, but I can see why life would be engineered to bring us to them; without them, we might never learn what faith is at all. Someone has said that you never know if your faith is real until it is all you have left.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Weakness

• I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red.

  

  Suzanne de Passe
  • Color
  • Racism
  • Hollywood