Quotes About Identity

I like the idea of seeing myself animated and caricatured.

Lots of times when you watch anime, the characters all have white skin - all the characters in fantasy stories all have white skin, which I never liked.

There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'

I kind of hate the fact that I feel like people expect you to announce what you are, and then you become it. I would rather become the thing and then name it.

My mom will sometimes call me Winnie. It's so annoying. I'm like, 'Who are you talking to?'

Just being thought of as a Christian is pretty annoying. Not that there's anything wrong with it. But just being told you're anything when you're not.

I've turned the annoying questions that white people ask into a career, so I understand that's where I live.

People have wanted me to change and it annoys me. Do we ask Ramos to be someone else? We take him as he is; take me as I am.

People always tell me I'm an anomaly or an outlier. I'm just me.

For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.

A writer is supposed to have anonymity.

I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me.

I'm incredibly ambitious, but I feel I've got a fantastic career, and I love the anonymity. I love that no one knows who I am.

That's one thing I miss, just being anonymous.

I'm very, very used to feeling anonymous, you know?

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

I'm not quite as anonymous as I was.

I am no longer able to be anonymous.

If you are anonymous, you are a less capable disrupter.

I love to be anonymous.

There's a lot of attention on me which can be good, it can be bad. Sometimes my daughter's acting up in public and I really wish I could become anonymous for a few minutes.

You should never put another man in front of you and say he's better than you.

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

I hope that in another way we can move the need to say, instead of being a Black director, or a woman director, or a French director that I'm just a director.