Quotes About Identity

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

If you cut me open I bleed East London.

I am Chicago. I'm from Chicago. I bleed Chicago. I really think I can help the city. I think I can save the city.

I bleed black and gold. NXT is home.

I wouldn't characterise myself as a bleeding heart liberal, whatever that is.

I think a lot of me trying to blend in was me co-opting the racism that was used against me in a way - being OK with it.

What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.

I don't want to be white. I don't want to be straight. I don't want to blend in.

I wanted to blend in 'cause I knew I was different.

I think a lot of the time when you just see a lot of beautiful girls it kind of just all blends in together. You want something about yourself to stand out.

Even now, I change my style and clothes from one day to the next, but during high school I blended in. I think a lot of people are that way. I guess that's why I can write about an array of characters.

I was born in a blender.

I'm not a blender. I don't like people who blend into society.

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

The first time I sat in a theater and watched myself on a screen was an out-of-body experience. It blew my mind.

Music made me feel like I was sexy. Music made me feel like I wasn't just a blind guy.

People who watch 'The Blind Side,' they're not going to have a chance to get to know me. People I'm close to, as long as they know me, know who I am, I don't have a problem with it.

You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

If I am a part of a huge setup where my role is blink and miss why would I do that?

The O is where I'm from. It's short for O Block.

I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.

Everybody from our block got PnB in front of their name.

I was so glad that I was able to use my skills of speaking Chinese in a film where the character is Chinese, because sometimes you actually don't get to do that. Especially in Hollywood blockbusters today because they want everyone around the world to understand what is happening, so they usually want you to speak English.