Quotes About Identity

Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me.

I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in.

I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

I sometimes laugh at the fact that people say I have good style.

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

When I go gray, I'm not going to be able to see it that much. I won't be salt and pepper: I'll be like salt and the white pepper you can buy.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.

A homosexual man is a man 100 per cent. He does not need to dress homosexual.

I was never a hippy, per se.

Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything other than he is. He isn't fooling anybody per se.

I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters.

I've always had an interest in complicating the way that we perceive the black character, whether it's the black academic or scholar or activist or black intellectual.

Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.

Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life.

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.

When people start to perceive you as the big guy, you're not allowed to be scrappy, fierce.

I think that I am misunderstood because people perceive me to be a certain way because I am generational. They expect me to be entitled and expect me to have things early on. I think people misconstrued that honestly.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

When people don't understand what they're watching, a lot of what they perceive has to do with who they themselves are.

How girls perceive themselves is interesting, and how they act when they're looking in the mirror.