Quotes About Identity

I'm obviously fighting for my community simply because I'm trans, and I have to do that, and I do it because that's my existence. I wake up in the morning, and that is my activism.

I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.

I am not, at the end of the day, a mother, a wife, a writer, an activist, a friend. I am a child of God. That's who I was when I came into this world and who I'll be when I leave it. No one can take that from me.

I'm not an activist, I'm an actor. I don't want to be an activist.

I don't think I'm a gay activist. I used to be.

I am not an activist. I am an actor.

I'm just an actor.

I - you know, I'm not an actor.

The whole sex-symbol thing is part of what I do as an actress. It's a kind of character I play. It's part of me, but not the whole me.

I'm an actress, not a pinup.

I didn't choose to be an actress.

I am not an actress.

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.

If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.

Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.

I'm not really an actress.

I don't want everyone to think I'm just the girl who acts.

I feel like L.A. is my actual home.

If everybody is a Facebook friend, what is an actual friend?

I don't even watch my own actual self on TV.

Willem Dafoe and I are actually the same person.