Quotes About Identity

I've been put in multiple boxes as blogging and as an influencer and not really perceived as a businesswoman, and that's something that I've really had to grow into.

I mean, I always just ignored the glass ceilings and didn't let gender get in my own way, which I think was very important to how people perceived me.

We all felt very passionate about what we wanted to do and how we wanted to be perceived by our fans and by the media.

I don't only like R&B. I always love in life when you see people acting in a way that is true and genuine to them but doesn't fit into the perceived notion of how they would respond to something.

Nobody at school would have expected me to be involved in anything that might have been perceived as cool. I was trying to make people laugh all the time, but my dad was the headmaster and I was quite swotty.

It was just really exciting to see dark people in white people's clothing, or what is perceived as white people garb.

I introspect on how I am perceived by other people. It's been this way since my childhood.

Not that I am hugely working class, but in the U.K. I'm always perceived, casting-wise, as being working class.

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.

I'll admit that I am not always 100 percent confident because I'm a woman. I'm a woman and I'm human.

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.

I can't be passionate about something or really give myself to something if I don't know it's a hundred percent authentic to who I am.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

Costume, hair and makeup can tell you instantly, or at least give you a larger perception of who a character is. It's the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth, so it really does establish who they are.

I was part of a hip-hop group called Fly Style. I was one of two white girls, and I was part of the younger company, which was called Touch of Style. And it was amazing. It gave me a different perception of dance and beauty because the other girls were mostly African-American and Latina.

I'm most proud of my heritage; being able to shape people's perception of Rwanda or Rwandans.

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.