Quotes About Identity

Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.

I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would become yet and I needed to read to figure it out.

Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else.

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.

There are films that can only be made in a specific country but that have a wider meaning. I think that's true of any art form.

What thou art, that thou art.

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.