Quotes About Identity

The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

I became one of the stately homos of England.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

Style is not the man; it is something better. It is a dizzy, dazzling structure that he erects about himself using as building materials selected elements from his own character.

Then my hostess said, "Oh, Denis (as my name was before I dyed it) never plays the part of a man.

You first have to find who you are. Then, you have to be it like mad.

I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.

It is no longer possible to be exotic.

If there were no applause and no criticism, who would you be?

You must make small steps into the air of being yourself. Find yourself in an empty landscape, build your character, and then spend the rest of your life demonstrating it.

Whereas in the twentieth century, there was a distinction between men and women, in the twenty-first century the lines of gender will become more and more blurred.

You're queer, I'll kill you.' I could only ask if the speaker wanted an appointment.

There is no great Dark Man !!!

It doesn't matter what other people think of you. What matters is what you think of yourself.

People have always imagined, or pretended to imagine, that I seek to provoke hostile attention. This is rubbish. What I want is to be accepted by other people without bevelling down my individuality to please them — because if I do that, all the attention, all the friendship, all the hospitality that I receive is really for somebody else of the same name.

By the time the last Americans had vanished into thin Englishmen I was nearly forty.

It is universally agreed that men are neither heterosexual nor homosexual; they are just sexual.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

Besides, even if you went all the way, what would you be? Feather-weight champion of the world. Who gives a shit? I doubt you can even get a credit card based on that. -- Marsellus Wallace

A dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.