Quotes About Identity

I've got a bit of the eccentricity of Africa and a bit of Western calm.

For me, playing the game of football, obviously there's a lot of emotions going on. But I always like to keep calm and just be myself.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

Remember where you came from.

When my first album came out, it wasn't Bollywood.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

When you put a camera in front of me, I'm home.

I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.

My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera.

David Cameron? He's not my guy.

I try to represent Africa and Cameroon as well as I can.

I've always said that even before Cameroon, I belong to Africa.

I left Cameroon when I was 13 years old, and I've lived more in Europe than Africa.

I'm from Cameroon, Central Africa.

I like camouflage a lot.

My dream when I was at Barca was to play at Camp Nou and I did - just not wearing the shirt I'd expected when I was little.

Camp is like this set-apart world where people go to try to change who they are, and yet change is really scary.

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

In the G.O.O.D. Music camp, we all come around, and we show ourselves and present ourselves as artists only.

For awhile the only thing people were talking to me about my music, that's all they ever said: 'You must be a nature lover. Are you camping all the time?'

When I have basketball camps and I tell kids my story, they're like, 'You played in Maine? In Israel? You did this and that?' I experienced a lot, and I feel like it made me not only the person I am today, but the basketball player I am.

To become a country, and truly call ourselves Canada, it means we must become one.

Canada's the best country in the world.

Canada is not Canada. We are not the country we think we are.