Quotes About Identity

Canadians are the best, they're the best.

When I was a kid, I didn't know Canadians could be actors. I thought just Americans could get acting jobs.

Why do Canadians sell themselves short? I've never been able to answer that question.

Canadians can be funny.

Oh, I think Canadians look like all sorts of people. That's the beauty of Canada.

It's clear that the Green party loves Quebecers deeply. At the same time, we are Canadians!

Canadians haven't always seen themselves in our party.

Canadians deserve to know the difference between Mr. Trudeau and myself.

Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.

Every time you hear that the majority of Democratic candidates go on stage, they say poor women of color need access to abortion. I was born to a poor woman of color. I was a poor woman of color when I gave birth to my children. Who's to say that their lives are worth any less than others?

I can't be an arm candy to the hero. I need to play characters that have layers, that people can relate to.

When people see me, I might come across as just eye candy.

Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it.

Sometimes I wear a cap or keep my head down and walk fast, so that people don't recognize me.

I don't know anyone who hasn't woken up one morning, one day in their life and wish they were someone else, or wish they could do something or wish they were capable of something.

We must be capable of writing our own history.

It's important to me for the world to see black men in different capacities - capacities in which they're probably not used to seeing them.

As a female comic, if you talk about sex in any capacity, you will be branded a 'sex comic,' so I might as well go full force on it.

I've always been talking about race in some sort of capacity.

I don't feel like I'm an artist with a capital 'A.'

I'm not this crazy capitalist everybody thinks I am.

You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell.

I've played 100 caps for England, for my country. Being the first black player, I think, is amazing.

I get a little tighter when I have to play the perfect Captain American-type of dude.