“People that are the same colour as me say, 'You give me inspiration,' ...” — Caleb McLaughlin Quote

“People that are the same colour as me say, 'You give me inspiration,' like there could be people like them onscreen. That's how I used to feel. I never thought any African-American people or people of colour could be on TV.”

“Your competition is yourself. Don't think about anyone else because when you think about someone else, you go to the other track, and that's not yours.”

“Before Stranger Things, before I was able to travel around the world, I lived in my own world in small-town Carmel, New York.”

“You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.”

“When people see Barack Obama, they don't necessarily see an African-American president. They see someone who is a child of immigrants. They see someone whose family has worked hard and struggled. And they see many similarities between themselves and Barack Obama.”