Quotes About Identity

The show is just my best friends and I being ourselves. We don't play a persona.

Clothes should always feel personal.

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

I always say that my music is my diary. It's very personal to me.

From my personal experience, because I'm in a relationship, on paper I would never have imagined - I'm an Essex girl, maths geek who likes football, and I've ended up with a Russian ballroom dancer, and I guess the things you think are important, especially when you're younger, turn out not to be.

I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.

I don't need much of a character in my life. I've already got one; my family knows who I am, and I don't have a reason to make an impression on the world around me unless it's in a professional context. Acting is not a personal experience; it's a job.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it.

I don't want to be a celebrity designer. I want to keep my personal life out of it.

Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.

I don't feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don't care if people think I'm gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.

In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.

My personal life is also cinema.

My work is my life. I've worked so much that I don't know the difference between my personal life and my work, or my personal friends and my work friends.

When I play a gay character, I want to be as believable as possible. And when I'm playing a straight character, I also want to be as believable as possible. So the less that people know about my personal life, the more believable I can be as a character.

I don't choose characters with the intention of working something out in my personal life.

I've always been very comfortable with me and the people I work with, and my family have always been very plugged into who I am with my personal life.