Quotes About Identity

Skinny guys fight till they're burger.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

There are no real men.

I was the nerdy one. I always played those kind of characters until Mad Men.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

Fundamentally women and men are different.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

I'm not a leading man.

I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.

I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

I don't wear jewelry, as a man.

Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

The only thing a man knows is himself.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.