Quotes About Identity

Playing for England is a bonus, but playing for Liverpool is what I want to do.

As far as I'm concerned, there's only one Booger.

If people can understand me and accept me as a woman, I'm going to get booked for more jobs.

I want to build a brand for myself and get booked for being me, while others will get booked for being them.

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I found in my father's basement - these things are all part of who I am and will always be a part of my work.

It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want to read something about Asian-American characters.

I'm just going to write whatever I'm going to write, and whatever shelf or section they end up on at the bookstore is just going to be that, and I'll let the marketing people pull their hair out and worry about it.

I love basketball and I love playing it, but there will be a stage in my career when I have to hang the basketball boots up, which is why I'm more than happy to have my culture with me.

No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.

I've gone across that border many times. My son was born in the United States; he is also a Mexican-American with the two passports.

We must secure the border, and we must not allow people to come into this country when we do not know who they are.

One of the greatest things that could really happen to Africa is for us to get rid of the borders and for the leadership not to think that the countries belong to them... We didn't create the borders to start with.

Home is not land and borders. It's about people you love.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?

In fact I spent a lot of time in my childhood trying to figure out what other people wanted of me. That made me study other people very much. Then I actually started university and I got quite bored. This is when I found out I wanted to be an actor.

By training, I'm an engineer, but I don't tell anyone because it bores people.

I am boring. I am boring!

I'm very boring. I'm a mom. I'm 34 years old.

I want to play around with my looks. It's very boring to appear the same in all your films. Then people are looking not at the character but at the actor.

I don't really want to play Will Poulter for the rest of my life, because that's boring.

I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.