Quotes About Identity

It's in the British nature to go 'Where I live is rubbish, I hate it so much.'

I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.

I know part of me is going to die when I stop playing rugby.

Until I really accepted this about myself and got over any of my own transphobia that I had, I really felt like I wouldn't be accepted. I thought I would ruin my life.

We do a lot of work to try to make sure people who we are using as people in the show don't know who we are, because that ruins it.

Everyone wants to go to countries ruled by white Europeans.

When I play for the country, I represent the country and not any specific government that is ruling or not ruling.

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.

There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!

I was expected to run the same as Roberto Carlos or Cafu, but I just couldn't do it.

I'm an athlete, but I'm not a runner. I'm 5-foot-8 and stocky - not exactly a runner's type.

I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'

I'm a liberal - and I'm not running from that word!

I'm not running for canonisation.

My real last name is Flores, and Milian is actually my mom's maiden name. So it's not made up, which is cool; it runs in the family. And it actually worked out better for my career to have the last name Milian, because Flores kept me in a little box, and no one really associated me with the last name Flores.

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

I'm not Russell Crowe. I'm not going to do a period piece.

I am not Russell Westbrook. I do not have the same name, same body type, stuff like that. So, I'm just going to try to be myself and be the best me and everything else will take care of itself.

I grew up in Russia. I grew up in Latvia, to be exact.

I love Russia.

Russia is the biggest European nation. We are Europeans, we are not Asians.

I mean, I'm a political figure in Russia for more than 10 years... This is how people in Russia know me.

I think I will only marry a Russian, well, I mean, a girl from Russia.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.