Quotes About Identity

Something amazing happens when you tell people you write about sports for a living. You begin to feel like you're in a scene from 'Dawn of the Dead.' The way people change when talking about 'their team' can be nothing short of zombiefication.

I am the same person who came to this city Mumbai a few years ago to act in Hindi films, and I am just continuing doing that. I did not change as a person. All that happens is people change around me.

I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I'd rather just do me and have people say, 'Oh. That's interesting,' than try to fit in.

I think it's hilarious if people say that my body looks masculine.

I've had people say things to me like, 'Don't change.' I don't know how to be anything other than myself.

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.

I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

'What will people say?' is a feeling every Indian girl grows up with.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.

People say, 'You look like the girl who used to be on that show 'Angel' - they don't actually think I'm her.

It harms me when people say I am 'non-mainstream' or 'non-commercial' actor. I try to fight off such labels.

I can't focus on what other people say about me.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

When people say to me, 'You make us proud,' it's heartwarming to hear that.

I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.

It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.

If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.

People say, 'I know you, don't I?' And they expect me to say I know them from their daughter's school or something - they can't place me. And I love that. Long may it last.