Quotes About Identity

When I don't have to be at work, I want to be the real me - the comfortable me!

I want an identity outside of my work.

I never wear makeup when I'm not at work. It can make you forget what you look like, and I've grown to really love the way I look without it.

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

I don't wear lipstick when I'm not at work.

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.

Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get said about me.

I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

I don't demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.

I wouldn't do the 'Magic Hour' again, but I would do TV again. The 'Magic Hour' is not me. Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.

Particularly as a Jew, I don't like missionary work. I've had it focused on me, and I don't like it. Let people be what they want to be.

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

One of the things that made Star Wars work was the kids didn't know who their dad was.

I don't wear ties to work. And I don't shave.

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

I'm not a 'sexy' 'beautiful' woman. It takes a lot of work to make me look like a girl.