Quotes About Identity

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything.

Every character I play is straight, which is unique, my agent says, because it's not really been done before that someone who is completely out is able to play straight roles.

I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

Argentinian people are always a bit more aggressive!

I just want to be Patty McCormack. I want to spend every year aging the way she has.

Never agree to say or do anything that isn't you.

I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me.

Everybody agreed I had all this talent, but I didn't know what to make of it.

My father always used to ask me what my aim in life is. I used to tell him I don't have any.

I never wanted to be the person snapping back into shape after a baby. I never wanted to do that, it was never an aim of mine at all.

I'm not aiming to be someone like Christina Aguilera.

Growing up, I didn't really know who the Tuskegee Airmen were.

I've been called Hasheem Thabeet more times than I can remember going through an airport.

I joke that I was basically born and raised in airports. I feel most at home at JFK.

My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.

You can't take a kid from north Alabama and growing up in church - some of that is just gonna seep out.

I was just a girl from Alabama.

I always tell people that I was raised in Alabama, but I grew up in New York!

There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.

I'm pretty sure I'm a doppelganger for Alan Alda. I'm a trannie; I'm a man.