Quotes About Identity

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

For me my work is always being compared to my heritage. It has been quite a challenge unto itself just to drop into my voice and develop my individuated sound.

Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.

Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

I think I want the best for my country. I can make work that makes us examine some truths about ourselves - that would be more of a contribution. That's how I see it.

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

The lack of work destroys people.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

One of the wonderful things about the actor's life is that's what we have the opportunity to do; we bring all these aspects of ourselves and of our personal lives into the work that we do.

I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.

Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.

I just don't feel like - I've never felt like - part of the entertainment industry. I still just feel like I'm trying to work my way in. And that's weird.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm most convenient to use!