Quotes About Identity

If your business is not a brand, it's a commodity.

It's dangerous business, thinking you can make people over.

This Islam business kidnapped me.

Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.

There is real danger of a disconnect between what's on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it's not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.

After a hit show is over, you soon realize this is a very tough business ... brutally tough. But I'm a better actor and I have more gravitas than I had at 24 with bleached-blonde hair.

I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not.

I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.

The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.

Business is about belonging which means inclusion is the new black.

He took my music, but he gave me my name.

I thought success in show business was everything. It isn't. I don't know what is.

What's her name?" "None of your business." "That can't possibly be her name.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

I didn't get into this business for other people to know my name.