Quotes About Identity

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.

I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.

I have tried the fancy, superficial life in my past, but I quickly learned that diamonds are not my best friend.

I truly believe that getting dressed in the morning is about deciding who you want to be, what you're saying in the world, and how you want people to see you. It's so much more than superficial.

If looks help, that's great, but we don't want it to be the featured thing. It's totally superficial.

It's very difficult to be fully accepting of who you are when you've got that superficial world out there.

I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.

I wanted Luke Cage to very much be an African American superhero rather than a superhero that happens to be black. I felt it was important to give him that cultural grounding but also show that it doesn't make him an obtuse or one-sided character.

I mean, I'm no superhero.

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

I'm not gay, and I'm not a superhero.

So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.

My dream role would be to play a Korean hero in a Hollywood superhero movie.

Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.

I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.

Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.

Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.

I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song.

We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our mouth are bent. And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors.

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

And I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.