Quotes About Identity

I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.

If I'm his 'twin,' we do not have the same mother.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry.

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.

All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R.

Tribe cats are named after the first thing their mother sees, but I thing this would lead to a lot of kits being named 'wall of cave', 'side of cave' and 'floor of cave

First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.

I hope people have pulled something about me and said "Hey Mr. T loves his mother, hey Mr. T ain't no dummy, hey Mr. T never grabbed his crotch," when you're talking about Hip-Hop culture.

My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

The term 'working mother' is redundant.

Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.