Quotes About Identity

If you feel comfortable and cool in particular clothes, then that is fashion according to me.

I have that normal male thing of valuing myself according to the job I do.

My very first account was @BlackBarbie, which is what my friends called me growing up. Then I thought, 'You can either call yourself that, or you can find something that will matter to dark-skinned girls.' So I came up with @melaniin.goddess.

I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

I have another secret Twitter account.

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

I spent the first half of my career being accused of being gay when I hadn't had anything like a gay relationship.

Homosexuality is a way of life that I've grown accustomed to.

I've been told my whole life what I can and can't be and what I can and can't achieve.

For most people watching 'Aiyyaa,' what I am down South or what I have achieved does not matter. They are going to look at me as an actor who they will see for the first time.

We must make it clear to younger girls that being someone's wife is not an achievement.

For an actor, that is the biggest achievement, to be known by your character name.

When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.

I am very confident about my color. It has never deterred me from achieving anything in life.

I would much rather be acknowledged for the work that I do rather than being a woman doing the type of work I do.

There was this moment in my father's house where he said, 'My wife, she never had any kids and I never had any kids.' Yeah... He had never acknowledged my existence.

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

I don't want to acquire whatever 'fame' is.

I am extremely proud of the fact that I have acted in art films.

I have acted in 'Unfreedom' and I know that I will be there in 'Ayodhya.'

If I had come out during my acting career in the 1950s, I would not have had a career.

It's not so much that I'd like to play a raunchy character, but I would like to play someone my own age. I'm always playing down, but I guess it's good because it means I've got a longer life in my acting career.

I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.