Quotes About Identity

Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.

Part of success is having a good story, and as a journalist, I totally understand. But it meant that my many, many years of focus and hard work got kind of prepackaged into a Cinderella story. I'm super grateful that it happened, but it left me feeling like I never got to be a full human in the experience.

To me, success is how recognisable your face is as an actress or a brand.

I'm a success story. Everybody from Memphis knows that, that's why don't nobody question it.

I don't define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I've persevered.

Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

I'm a gay disabled man who has become very successful. I don't get up in the morning and think I'm inspirational; I just get up thinking that I love horses.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Most successful musicals need to attach themselves to something bigger than themselves, a concept that will make people feel immediately connected to it.

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

Dad's fear, especially when I was 18, was that, in the music industry in the U.K., there wasn't really anybody I would aspire to who was of black origin and who was successful. It was mainly black American musicians in the charts and, at that age, I think you look for someone you can identify with, and there wasn't really anyone.

I don't want it to be something that becomes a cage, where to be a successful Black girl, you have to be Amanda Gorman and go to Harvard. I want someone to eventually disrupt the model I have established.

It is sad that the more 'successful' a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in.

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.

He should write his name as Jaan Rita Bhattacharya, not Jaan Kumar Sanu because, firstly, Ritaji has done a lot for him, and secondly, people will start comparing him with me, which is not good for him as a newcomer. I'd be the happiest father to see him successful.

Normally, I try to stay away from playing security guard-type characters, the stereotypical, big man fare. And I've been pretty blessed, man, and successful at getting out of the box.

What I want to represent for my daughters is that you can always stay true to yourself and still be successful.

Being a successful Hollywood actress may be challenging, but little did I know that the very body that had always been my calling card would betray me.

I'm very happy that people call me by my first name now. They seem to believe that I'm not just doing this job because my father did. I also hope I will be more successful than my father.

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

The most successful people do play extensions of themselves in the ring.