Quotes About Identity

My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.

My family is Brazilian and I feel Brazilian, even though I have never lived there. I was born and raised in Belgium so I also feel Belgian. I feel the blood of a Brazilian, but I understand both ways.

I would never say 'Demian Maia jiu-jitsu.' I created lots of things that became known, but it's all Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

We're not an American band, or a European band. We're a Brazilian band.

Bread and football - that's how I grew up.

I don't want to be 'de-ethnicised.' I hate it when people say, 'Oh I don't even think of you as a woman,' or, 'I don't even think of you as a black woman.' Well what do you think of me as then? A loaf of bread?

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

There are constant challenges about what's 'mainstream.' These kids in 'Dope' are as mainstream as the kids in 'Superbad' or 'The Breakfast Club.'

I felt like I was Ferris Bueller. I wanted to be those kids in 'The Breakfast Club.'

Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rules and sinning. I'm really interested in what it means to be female.

I really got into Three Doors Down - that's the sound that was out when I was 12 or 13. I really loved Breaking Benjamin and bands like that.

After 'Breaking Bad,' I couldn't see myself liking anything nearly as much.

It breaks my heart that some of my fans think that because they love me and they idolize me, they have to be just like me and dress like me and act like me.

In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.

I don't know if it breaks my heart to say it or not, but I feel like my legacy might be more behind the scenes than it ever was in the ring.

I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life.

London really is my city; I was born within a breath of Marble Arch.

There is a future for English films. Don't we all talk, breathe, and think in English? If we can talk and think in English, we can also make films in English.

You have to live and breathe Scotland if you're 'Scotsman' editor.

Bondy is a city that breathes football.

Cinema is actually very backward. When we see gay characters or people of color, they're always there for that reason. I'm personally kind of sick of that. I love to see characters who just live and breathe and are comfortable in that space.

America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.

Atlanta, in itself, is its own living, breathing thing.