Quotes About Identity

It's so important to have representation for all races on TV. All people, from all walks of life. So when other people look at the television screen they can see and identify with that person doing great things.

I've had a lot of characters and personalities, accents and different aspects from all the walks of my life.

Adopting mannerisms is called mimicry. That is not a good way to do things. You don't start to imitate somebody, the way he walks and talks, that is a very irrelevant element of acting.

Superman walks around with an 'S' on his chest. I walk around with a 'P' on my chest, and that P stands for Passion.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the dumbest of you all?

When someone says 'Yasss queen!' to me, I turn around and, X-Men style, run through a wall. You'll never hear from me again.

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.

I'm standing behind a wall of jokes. You don't know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I'm not on the road. There's this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don't know anything about me.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.

I hit a brick wall one day, and I spent a lot of time by myself learning about me and who I am and what I want and don't want.

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

There were times in my career when I felt like I was serving several different masters, and for me, that wasn't beneficial.

I do speak a bit of Bengali.

My father is a Malayalee, my mother is a Bengali.

Not many people know that I am a Bengali actually.

The only thing redeeming about my being born a Bengali is being brought up reading Rabindranath and Saratchandra. Other than that, the stagnancy of this city put me off all along.

A lot of people have said I look Bengali!

Yes, I have an Australian wife; she is half Bengali, half British.

My father is a Sindhi and my mother, a Bengali.

I got my name, fame, identity and even my National award from Bengali cinema.

I am happy to do a film in Bengali language as I know and love that language.

I look like a very nice, benign Jewish man-boy.