Quotes About Identity

I don't think of myself as an American Master. I've just been making a living.

One thing that's nice about doing a movie about people that hardly anyone knows, you never worry if they're a perfect match.

Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.

The audience will find the artist who matches their interests. If you're not being true to yourself, your audience can't find you, because there's a wall up between who you are and who they're seeing.

I'll be walking down the street with a mate, and someone will stop and say 'All right Crouchy, how's things?' and so on. Once they're gone, the person I'm with will say 'Do you know them?' and I'll say 'I've never met them before in my life'. Happens all the time.

I don't feel like material things validate me in any way.

I'm not big on material things, but I like my cars. They are German-made and custom-made.

I've never been particularly maternal.

My mates are absolute nutters. They're all Essex boys in the true sense and they definitely keep my feet on the ground.

My mates and my family know who I am and that's all I really care about. Making my parents proud and happy.

I get it everywhere, 'Look at the math teacher. Look at the science teacher.' I get it everywhere I go, which I can kind of enjoy.

Love yourself no matter who you are or where you come from.

Rap music's the only thing that ever mattered.

I don't think it matters where I came from any more.

When I was younger I looked a bit like Matthew Modine out of 'Birdy'.

When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.

Sometimes early in my career I thought what I did was who I was. As you mature, I've learned that is not the case. This is what I do, this is not who I am.

I was a young, messed-up kid who didn't mature until he became a Christian. That was in 2008 - the rest of my life, I'd been living a lie.

I'll always be an Essex girl at heart but I've matured and I've evolved and with my work I'm in the West End all the time.

You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her.

Most people have trouble pronouncing my name, so they just call me 'Mayor Pete.'

I can't make Based God music all the time. The Based God is something that is better than Lil B and better than Brandon McCartney; he's something that I aspire to be.

To me, basically, the whole meaning of 'Little Women' and what it conveys to me is the choice of being any kind of woman.

People don't even know the meaning of the word 'transvestite.'