Quotes About Identity

Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.

I don't think Mercedes-Benz says anything about me, really. I was in a situation where I was able to get a really nice car and I'm proud to have it.

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

Choosing the car you drive is like choosing your wardrobe, maybe even more important.

You are not the car you drive.

I'm not playing the race card. I'm playing the rice card.

You gotta know who you are, I think, as a person, I'm a laidback guy. I'm very simple. It's simplicity with me. Everything else, having the 10 cars or the 20 cars is ludicrous.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'Do you have any idea what I do for a living? Why?'

You can make them so small that they almost disappear, but I think headlights are also part of the face of a car.

When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like , 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.

I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality, so I'll be walking down the street, and I forget what I do and who I am.

Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?

There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car keys.

Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car

It's funny I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.

An Englishman's car is his castle on wheels.

I don't know how to drive a car. The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing.

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.