Quotes About Identity

A lot of people don't perceive me as female or trans, they just see some rocker.

I've learned a lot about myself through my music and the way people perceive it, and the goal is for the success not to change me.

I don't know how I'm really perceived in the world.

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.

Really, I have no idea how I'm perceived in the industry.

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.

My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.

I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

The ability of the president to be perceived as someone with whom all Israelis can identify depends on his ability to avoid being a party to debate.

I spent many years trying to fit in and do things the way I thought I was supposed to - trying to be perceived the way I thought people wanted to see me. I grew up in a very religious household and wasn't taught to feel comfortable or good about my sexuality, so it feels great to be able to say things the way I want to say them.

I love that, 'mommy-shaming.' When I was a new mom, I was obsessed with how I was being perceived and trying to fit in as a mom, going to mommy-and-me classes and things like that, and never quite measuring up to 'the real moms,' the 'robot moms,' as I called them.

As much as I'd love to believe that we are 'post-racial' - an idea that really gained traction after the election of Barack Obama in 2008 - I can never escape the fact that in the world I am perceived as a 'black man' and, in certain parts of the world, as a 'black gay man.'

I never perceived being adopted as the glass being half-empty.

The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play 'Angels in America,' allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He was the character that couldn't come out to his mother. It allowed me to understand emotional and closeted behavior, because you're so acutely aware of how you're perceived.

A gender capitalist is someone who takes advantage of opportunities given to people based on their perceived sex or gender.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.

It can be difficult for players who are perceived to have turned their backs on England, as Wilfried Zaha has found out after deciding to play for Ivory Coast.