Quotes About Identity

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.

I produce but I'm producing work that I can be in.

I would not describe myself as a left-wing filmmaker. I don't think this is the first thing that would pop into my mind when talking about my work.

Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.

I try to put my own history in my work.

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.

You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be 'that bloke from 'Lock, Stock'.' You've got to embrace it.

As long as my work continues to speak for itself outside of what I look like, I'm okay.

We live in an age of publicity and hype. There's something about success that dehumanizes you, whereas failure reminds you of who you really are.

I have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work.

In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn't work. It's a part of themselves. Of who they are.

Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white, every last one is pretty pink on the inside and they are all impossible.

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.