Quotes About Identity

None but himself can be his parallel.

I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

I came from Hyderabad and didn't know the difference between commercial and parallel cinema.

My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements.

I don't clean now, because I'm paralyzed. But let me tell you, I would clean. I cleaned, and I ironed. It's my inner femininity.

Outside certain parameters, I don't consider myself that serious a person.

Football should not be your source of identity. This one is important to me because I am much more than the player. My faith, my wife, my family, and the work I do off the field is paramount to feeling whole.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

Being British, I don't want to be all paranoid and arrogant and think people are looking at me because, really, I'm nothing.

I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic.

As a child actor, you experience a lot of depression and anxiety... Yes, I went through depression, and it was not comfortable. Yes, I struggle with anxiety and being paranoid, trying to figure out who I am.

A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.

Now you don't know if somebody likes you or Milli Vanilli, the fame, the money. This makes it difficult. This makes you a little paranoid and afraid about people.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

One thing I always want to clear up was the notion that I 'took time off to have a baby.' A lot people leapt to that conclusion because becoming a parent happened to coincide with film roles tapering off.

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine.

After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.

I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.

I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have a dead mother or a lost parent.

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'