Quotes About Identity

My mother was a doctor and so I spent a lot of time with Hirabai, our maid. One day, she got home and saw Hirabai bouncing me on her lap and cooing, 'Chunky, chunky.' She liked the name and it stuck.

Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories.

America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with those of the black American.

I think I was always bound to become two selves, if I wasn't already.

I have lost weight; my face is bound to look different.

I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.

I'm not gonna lie; I don't always like everything about Bow and I don't always like everyone in Bow and they don't always like me but on the whole I love where I come from. I'm proud of where I come from and I'm proud to represent that area.

I never try to create a different personality or anything like that. I'm not like David Bowie or somebody like that, who changes personas each year.

I had a bowl cut. That was pretty bad. Definitely a bowl cut. And I used to have blond, like really, really, blond hair when I was a kid. So blond bowl cut - that's what I was rocking when I was a little kid.

I love the bowl cut. I had it when I was younger, and I decided to go back to it. It seems to fit me.

I think until we win a big bowl game or do something like that, I'm just a guy who came and played at BC.

I have always seen myself more as a batsman than a bowler.

I just always wear bows. I always love bows, and it's always been my thing.

I just felt like I was making people angry because I wouldn't wear the frilly bows.

Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box.

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

I think most people write from what they see in their own world, which is maybe why we so often see an African-American woman as the best friend, or the one you bring in when you need some sass. It's like we're put in a box.

I really didn't want to be boxed into becoming a certain kind of film-maker - becoming the Maori story film-maker because I had made those short films.

It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.

I don't know if I'm an action star or if that's just how things are shaping up. I would hate to be boxed into that forever, but it's probably just a strength as far as my type goes, and I'm fine with that.