Quotes About Identity

A bad laugh is a laugh for the sake of a laugh that's out of character.

I don't think we should be presentable or present ourselves for the sake of others.

I am tired of starring in those films where I am being a part just for the sake of it.

There's a difference between fame and fame for fame's sake.

For me, Malayalam films remain the most important. I don't want to do more Tamil films just for the sake of it.

People talk about each other in the worst way, especially when you become a product for sale. You're just a thing.

Everyone's life is for sale in America.

My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.

It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

I don't speak Punjabi. My dad runs a beauty salon and is an Elvis fan.

People know me as Prakash Rai in Karnataka. Let it be so. But I'm known as Prakash Raj to the rest of India and abroad. Every actor worth his salt gets a name after coming to films.

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

I find that I relate to most of the characters that I play on a really personal level, just because we're the same age, we're girls, and we're growing. I can find myself in those roles, so it makes it easy to connect to. But all of them are their own person - they're all hard to understand and hard to figure out, just like I am.

I don't consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.

I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

It's cool when frat boys say, 'Yeah, 'Hedwig!' I'd like to see that same thing happen with 'Shortbus.'

I sometimes buy albums that I don't like now, but that I know I will like. Coming out was the same thing. In high school, I thought, 'I know I'm going to have to deal with this, but I'm not confident enough now.' But when I finally did, my whole life changed.

Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about? You mean Hollywood movies that have black people in them?' It's gone back to that, and that's not the same thing as a black movie.

I've always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things.

I listen to the same things that a lot of my fans do, and I grew up in much the same way they're growing up.

San Antonio itself does feel like home.

I never saw Black Santa growing up. I would have loved to.

But at the end of the day, I'm a girl. I'm from Santa Monica. I'm going to look how I want to look and play how I want to play, and if people don't like it, then they don't like it.

I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much.