Quotes About Identity

I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

I don't think I'm particularly beautiful at all.

Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

I didn't particularly like being objectified.

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong.

Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm.

I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

When I go to parties, there's a moment when I think, 'I really don't belong here.'

To me, full-time mothering felt like way too much and yet not nearly enough. Lost in a landslide of diapers, birthday parties, and others' needs, I ached to reestablish myself.

My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person.

My friends back from the East Coast jokingly call me 'Hollywood,' and they assume I'm out at Hollywood parties, but I'm a domesticated guy with 3 kids.

I don't know what makes me me. Sometimes it's really annoying to be me, but I have always had a spirit that wants to find a challenge, parties, the life, the attention, where the most energy is - I'm going in.

I don't really see myself as a socialite or as a 'child of someone.' I'd rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time.

Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties.

I don't attend costume parties.

All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.

Difference between Partition experience of Punjabis and Sindhis is that Punjabis found their state in India while Sindhis lost theirs.

Partition happened in my life but do you think I should be living in partition? I have seen it but as India has moved further and as a generation has moved further I am also moving further.

Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.