Quotes About Identity

I also want to announce that I'm changing my name. I haven't told anyone. You get the scoop.

You can't start changing things in your past. Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. I certainly wouldn't be who I am.

Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world.

Channel brand is so key.

We are now focused on the brand, not the channel.

I'm such a Beeb girl, they've always been great to me. I've worked at ITV and Channel 4, but the BBC has always felt like home.

It is a really interesting to hear yourself on the radio. I've gotten to hear myself in different capacities. I've heard myself on Sirius XM on the bluegrass channels, and on WSM and other places.

The chaos of my life has a lot to do with my hair.

'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.

I feel like we have so much to add to this book called the American Dream, and I want to add our chapter to it. I want to talk about what it means to be brown American and this concept of what I feel is the New Brown America.

Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didn't even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.

I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into that category, it means you're working. So that's good!

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.

But I'm not, I'm legitimate, I'm a legitimate character actor of the theatre and film.

I do think I'm a character actor.

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

I was born a character actor.

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that.

I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.