Quotes About Identity

I am not a superstar in Britain.

I know for a fact if I were a white English fighter, maybe I would have been a superstar in Britain - and the world.

I'm not looking to be a superstar. That's why I'm positioned as the face of TNA.

I ain't no superstar.

I'm gonna be a better McGregor. I'm gonna be the American superstar. He's the Ireland superstar.

It irritates me to see people aping superstars.

Some girls are just cut out to be housewives, drive SUVs and sing in the shower as opposed to being superstars.

Most of the time, with artists like me who go on to become superstars, you never see them when they are still lost and trying to figure life out.

I looked at all the superstars. What is their different thing? Their hair. Beatles, Elvis, James Dean, James Brown, Marilyn Monroe. I wanted to be a star. I said, 'I have to fix my hair.'

I think sometimes fans or people kind of get confused. They think these athletes or superstars aren't human, but they are.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

Obviously I am Prateik Babbar but I would like to be called Prateik. I am superstitious; there is a spiritual reason why.

As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess.

From day one working in TV, I have been very conscious of the way the Irish are represented, In every show I've been involved in I read the script, take out the Irishisms right away and say, 'I'll supply those'.

I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me.

I'm half Native American and half Mexican and I support all native peoples around the world.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

When you don't have a support system, and you're constantly being bullied for who you are, and you begin to not accept yourself for who you are, it's a distraction from schoolwork. It's a distraction from learning and from growing.

To be counted in the census is to be both seen and supported.

I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.

I have always given everything to the clubs I have represented and I represent. But I cannot lie to you: the club of my heart is still Real Zaragoza, who I have supported as a child and where I started my career.

That's how diversity becomes a gimmick or device, when it is introduced but not supported.

Where are the Asian leading men? Well, we're being kicked to the ground; we're not being supported. We're not considered sexy or masculine, this or that. When you start hearing something enough, you start to believe it. But our world is changing, and I think we're starting to see that that's not the end-all be-all.

You're supported by everything in New York if you want to be a performing artist. You come here, you can change your name. You leave home, you come here, you're severed from family obligations - the old identity drops away as soon as you come to New York because you're coming to New York, if you're an artist, to be someone else.