Quotes About Identity

A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

I had bulimia for a few years. I was really sick. I don't know that person; I can't believe that was me.

I'd go at anyone. I took all of my brothers' bull. It made me who I am.

If there was ever a true emotion of a Chicago Bull, Derrick Rose embodies it. Because he is Chicago. That kid will do anything for the city of Chicago.

Since I was growing up, I was always the younger one playing with older guys. They called me Young Bull and that just stuck.

It's like I'm held up as some kind of beacon of England - or some bloody British bulldog.

I'm sure there are people wearing Bullet Club shirts who don't even know what it is. It's one of those kind of things, but that's good.

I'm 44, and I've never had a problem being gay, and maybe I dodged a lot of bullets, and maybe I'm one of the lucky ones. I want to make sure every kid can have that experience.

When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.

For me as a kid growing up, I was gay and I didn't even realise it, let alone accept it. I was told I was gay before I could even imagine it. I was incredibly bullied - ferociously bullied - as a child.

I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.

Growing up, at that time, I didn't want to be black because I was bullied, and I'd tell my mum that I wanted to be white like everyone else at school.

I wasn't bullied or anything, but I didn't really fit in.

When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.

I've been bullied about my appearance since forever.

I got bullied so much growing up for being a different color in a majority white school.

I've been bullied because of the way I've looked growing up.

I was bullied in high school because I looked different.

I was never bullied because I was Dharmendra's son.

I know how hard it is to be bullied about a part of yourself that you can't change, or just because of who you are. It can turn you into an angry and bitter person.

I'm the person I am because of all the support we have but inside there is still a scared, gay kid, worried he's going to get bullied and people aren't going to like what I do.

Growing up I used to get bullied and stuff, how I look like.