Quotes About Identity

I definitely felt growing up that I wasn't seen as the same as anyone around me because no one around me looked like me. There were no black Scottish role models.

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

I was a model scout. I was never a model, but they just dropped the scout.

I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

My whole life I've never felt, as a female, I was up to scratch.

When Armaan sang his first song for Vishal Dadlani, he didn't know that they were making Daboo Malik's son sing. He went inside the studio when he was 10-11, sang a scratch and it went on to be part of 'Bhoothnath.' He didn't get the opportunity because he was so and so's kid.

Everybody has a story... and a scream.

I think the one that resonates the most with a lot of people is from The Scream album - 'Father, Mother, Son.'

I will be very sad if I ever get to the point where I think, 'Oh no, another dress from Armani.' I want to be still screaming my head off when it arrives.

If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.

It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.

Any film which makes me play myself on the screen comes easy for me.

I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'

I don't like seeing myself on screen. Whenever I see or hear myself, I think, 'What is that eejet doing now?' I'm in the wrong business. I don't like the limelight.

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

I was drawn to gay parts because of their scripts, what the roles offered.