Quotes About Identity

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

Makes of men date, like makes of car.

I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.

I think we've all got a mirror man in our life - male, female, it's someone who love themselves before they can love anyone else.

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - its relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.

God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.

As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.

No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

I'm proud to be Parisian, proud to be a BANLIEUSARD. Which means a man from the suburbs, from the streets, from the outskirt.

I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?