Quotes About Identity

It's maybe a better thought to change the perception of an accent than to avoid it all together.

People think I can't go shopping - that's their perception of how famous I am.

I have learned already that you have to work against people's perception as they want to box you in very quickly.

What shaped my perception about my body and myself was finding better clothes - that's what changed my world.

Even when I went out, people had this perception that 'Oh Riya Sen' because they feel what you're on screen, you're the same in real life.

I am quite comfortable with the way I look and I am not doing anything to change people's perception.

There's this perception that you can't be more than one thing. That if you're dubbed 'sexy' you can no longer be anything else. That you become intellectually uncomplicated, incapable of accomplishing anything other than appearing to be an object for men. And it's rubbish.

People have a perception of you and that's very difficult to change.

I think people have a different perception of me than what I am. I think they get me confused with Lyle Alzado.

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.

I sort of challenge people's perceptions of what a gay man is, which is kinda good.

People read things on Google, and they have these perceptions, these misconceived perceptions of who you are. At times that hurts, because they really don't know who I am.

There was a lot of struggle. People have different perceptions about you and sometimes looks also can limit you as an actor.

Your body is not your own when you are acting in a film. It becomes your character's body. Everyone sees you like that and builds up perceptions of you that have nothing to do with you.

It's not at all a far jump to think that overall perceptions of gender - and what is and is not important in gender roles - would carry over from life to fiction.

Girl, Woman, Other' by Bernadine Evaristo is so phenomenally written, following the interlinking lives and stories of women of colour navigating life mainly in the U.K. It's so beautiful, perceptive and insightful, giving us so much to think about and changing the way we see the world and the experiences of others.

I am who I am and that's all I'll ever be. Not perfect, nobody is.

I'm not perfect. I don't claim to be perfect. So, when people point out I'm imperfect, so what? That's just who I am.

It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.

I'm centered in who I am, and I'm really grateful. I'm not perfect.

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.