Quotes About Identity

If you are who you are on stage, people pay attention.

When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them.

I think the more complex your idea of who someone is or who a particular group is, the less able you are to separate 'we' and 'outside' or 'us and them.' I think that that's something that we really, really need to pay attention to.

People ask me why I became an actor, and the truth is that once you get cut from the baseball team, you need another angle to get women to pay attention.

I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.

I don't know, I really try not to pay attention to comparisons, 'cause I'm my own artist. I try to build my own sound.

I'm not Ryan Seacrest. If I want people to pay attention to me, I have to just eat scorching-hot food.

What you learn growing up in a place like Buffalo is that your job isn't just your paycheck, it's your identity. It doesn't just give you dollars, it gives you dignity.

People call me Benny. And as long as they put Benedict on my paycheck, I don't care.

I don't know what it is about me and this cop thing, but I get a lot of cop offers. Everyone always assumes that I'm someone on the force, but as long as they are paying me, I will play a cop until the day I die.

I was Overflow. Another one I had was the Caped Crusader. Chamillionaire was Payroll. That was our group back then, Payroll and the Caped Crusader. We grew up on the same street so we lived a few houses down from each other. So we knew each other pretty much all our life.

I don't think it pays to just be an artist, particularly for kids of color - there will be fewer roles.

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

God has not made anything that I know of that pays so much attention to who their father and mother is as us.

I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.

IU and I hosted a music program together, and she had told me that she would be writing a song for me. My fans call me 'Peach,' so when her new song came out, I called to ask her about it, and she confirmed that the song was for me.

Don't peak in high school.

I think there are people who think 'high school was the peak of my life,' and there are people who think it was dreadful, and then, I think most people are somewhere in between. I do think that it's normal to experience strong emotions during that time, and I think those emotions stay with you.

I never wanted football to be my highest peak.

No one wants to be the person who peaked in high school!

I'm pretty sure I peaked at 15.

People say to me all the time, 'When did you know that you had fully become an American?' And I say, 'The day I realized I loved peanut butter.'

Fashion is definitely important. It's like peanut butter and jelly with hiphop music, you know what I'm saying? So, it's a part of you, a part of yourself as a person.

Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn't spent most of her life in China, she'd have every right to write about it.