Quotes About Identity

If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.

I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'

We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.

One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.

There are pictures of me in a Dos Caras mask when I was 3 years old.

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

I haven't had a chance to decorate my dressing room yet, but I have these pictures of myself as a kid that I want to put up because I said, 'I really want to make sure that I take that kid with me on this journey.' I want him to experience this.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man.

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

I look back at my elementary or high school pictures and I always had gel in my hair and a gold chain that I would wear outside my shirt. That's how I was born and raised as an Italian male, and I always considered myself a Guido, anyway.

I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.

I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much.

I'm as American as apple pie.

Don King is as American as apple pie. He is America.

Wigan is the town I come from. We're all known as pie eaters in Wigan.

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

Finding ballet was like finding this missing piece of myself.

With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more bitter. It is horrible in a way.