Quotes About Identity

Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

One great thing about being a black man is that if you put on a hat, you can move around unnoticed.

He's a man...and that's no small thing to be.

Everyone knows that you're not really a real man unless you own a gun.

I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.

How can a young man like to wear a beard?

Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.

Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

Mirrors at the gym only serve to remind me that I'm less of a man than I'd like to be.

The man I want to be could easily beat me up.

Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

The white man gets all the best catchphrases!

Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

I was a man by middle school.

But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.