Quotes About Identity

Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.

I really only knew the name Berry Gordy growing up, but I didn't know what he looked like or anything about him.

When I was young, people used to be like, 'You look just like Halle Berry - out of Losing Isaiah.' I don't care; she was still beautiful in that movie!

I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.

Sometimes I think it's easier to play someone who's very, very different from yourself. Besides, I wouldn't want to play people who are just like me; that would get awfully boring very fast!

Everyone says, 'What does Demetrius Andrade bring to the table?' Besides being the best American middleweight, and one of the top three middleweights in the world, everyone knows who I am and they know how good I am.

I am not the best. I don't have to be. I am enough.

Perhaps a young boy or girl, after watching my video, can go, 'Maybe I don't have to be embarrassed. Maybe I can come out at school, maybe I can tell my best friend... and maybe I don't have to be afraid anymore.'

It's weird because I do act like best friends, but still, I don't sit there and say my mum's my best friend. That doesn't really cover it.

I'm often asked what it was like to have a famous mother. I always answer that I really don't know. I knew her first as my mother, and then as my best friend. Only after that did I understand that she was an actress, and with time that she was truly an exceptional actress.

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

You hold everybody that's Polynesian or Samoan on your shoulders. You want to do your best to represent that in the best way that you can.

I think being true to yourself is ultimately the best way of living.

I think celebrity is such a weird word. I see myself as, like, a personality. I hate saying the word 'YouTuber' because it draws so much negative attention but I think personality is the best way to put it.

My little girl was born in Los Angeles, and my wife was born in Bethlehem, Pa.

Where I grew up, the one unmistakable sign of homosexuality was to betray some interest in your appearance.

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.

You can't let fashion tell you what to do. If it doesn't look good on you you're better off without it.

I feel like I'm a better person without the game of football. I'm happier.

The camera doesn't make you a better person, it doesn't even change the person that you are, it just magnifies who you are.

There's no better time than now to be who you are.

There's a part of me that's very stereotypically Australian, with the lingo, or for lack of a better way of putting it, the way white Australians would speak. And then, Oh, that's not all I am.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.