Quotes About Identity

People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are.

What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.

Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.

I think there is a moment in every parent's life where we realize that we have lost ourselves a little bit. It's a moment of looking in the mirror and going, 'I need to put on some lipstick.'

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?

I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

When you're a parent, you're automatically the most uncool person that exists.

I just always play these really extreme characters - they've all come with parental guidance stickers on them.

The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Too many architects are just trying to make all of their buildings look like a brand, and that may be good for business, but that is terrible for the cities because they lose character. If I go to Paris, I go to see the beauty of Paris and the coherence of Paris.

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

Even if I have a home in Paris and sometimes in New York, whenever I was saying I have to go home, it was going to my mother.

I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing.

I'm very Belgian, and I will die Belgian. I just have my house in the north of France because I began my career in Paris, even though I don't live there anymore.

Today, I'm Brazilian, born in Rio de Janeiro, but my second home is Paris. Nobody can change that.

Is Paris Hilton even an actress? I'm thinking no.

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.