Quotes About Identity

No matter what I do for the rest of my career, I think I'll always be a Bulls guy.

I've never been called a bully in my life.

If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.

I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.

Everyone always told me I had a J-Lo bum. Since I was 15 it's always been like that.

I've got a Moroccan shape, where the weight goes on around the belly and the bum.

I've always had a big bum.

I'm short, stocky and have a big bum.

I'm on all the apps: Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, Scruff. I have no shame about that.

If I take back any of the bumps, bruises or scrapes I've been through. I wouldn't be the same person.

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it.

Fame has become less and less important to me, it's more of a burden than anything else.

It is a burden that people have expectations about me.

My looks were good enough for what I needed in every possible way but not so much to be a burden.

My burden is my past as a TV star. But, you know, pasts cannot be a life sentence.

But when culture becomes a baggage, things don't work. What is good about anything that feels like a baggage? I think we should let go when it feels like a burden. Hold on to the things you love. Then it will be a natural process.

I think a lot of burden is put on someone's middle name, but the reality is that you never use it.

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

After the Pussycat Dolls, I was burnt out. So when I left them in 2010, I did take a second to say, 'Right, I've done this for seven years. Who the hell am I as an individual? Do I still want to do this?'

It's always disconcerting when somebody comes over to you on the bus and says, 'I know who you are.'

It's not every day you see a bus with your own face on it.

Undergrad, for me, in college was really about, you know, how do I become a professional. But business school, for me, was how do I become the person that I'm meant to be.