Quotes About Identity

A little voice keeps telling me an Aston Martin really isn't me, but a louder voice is telling me that, as an England international playing for Liverpool, the old rules no longer apply.

I grew up watching shows like 'Martin' and 'Fresh Prince' and 'Moesha,' and I was inspired by all these shows. When I was growing up, there were so many black people in TV. That's just the world I was around.

Sometimes, people know me from Marvel's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' But that usually only happens in America.

Stacy Keach was marvelous. He looked more like my father than anyone who had ever played him before.

They've said everything about me that they could: racist, Marxist, rightist, homophobic, sex change - I don't know what else they could come up with.

You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

I got interviewed by one writer who started with the line, 'Mary Gauthier is a woman who clearly doesn't care how she looks.' I do too. It's just that I'm not very good at it.

I'm from the DMV. I grew up in Maryland my whole life and I was born in Washington D.C.

If you're in an Egyptian film and you're not Egyptian, you have to wear mascara and stuff like that.

I don't wear mascara. No mascara.

People thought I wrote in a very 'masculine' way.

I wasn't a masculine kid; I was pretty effeminate.

I'm definitely more attracted to men and masculinity - not just cis men but trans guys, too.

The way I dress, the way I talk, the way I do things, what I say on Twitter - it's just like, that's who you are, so don't try to mask who you are just because of what other people think of you.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

The first mask I had was an original pale-white kabuki mask.

I want to be the female Rey Mysterio. Whether it's with a mask or not, I want to be him.

I have several different masks that I wear.

We all have to wear social masks in our daily lives to get by.

The masks, for us, are more of a way to present ourselves live, you know?

I remember distinctly not seeing myself. I didn't see myself in black culture, white culture, mass culture.

The coming out video was not just for the masses, but also for many people in my family.

As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.

I was operated on facially so much when I was young, and I had massive amounts of stitches.