Quotes About Identity

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.

It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.

I want to present a very strong and bold image, but with femininity. I love being sweet and salty all together.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

I knew from a very, very early age that I was gay, although in the social environment in Venezuela, you don't ever let that be known.

I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.

I've been insane from a very early age.

Being gay, you're kind of forced to ask, I suppose, very existential questions from a very, very early age. Your identity becomes so important to you because you're trying to understand it, and, I think, from the age of, like, 9, you're being forced to ask questions... that other kids maybe don't have to ask.

My brothers and sisters started having children at a very early age, and I was just there all alone at one point, like, 'What do I do?' And I thought the only thing I can do is create mine, make my family, and I did that.

I knew at a very early age, about 6 years old, that there was something different about me. But being young and not being exposed to people who had gender dysphoria, or role models that you see on TV today, I didn't know what it was.

I came out at a very early age. I sat my mom down at my 12th birthday party and told her in front of my friends. She said, 'Baby, mama already knows, and I'm going to love you regardless.' Once I got my mom's support, there was nothing else I needed.

Society has been conditioned for a very long time to see beauty as something that's been westernised.

I think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was.

I thought for a very long time that I had to conform or maybe change the way I look, or maybe the hijab was dimming my beauty. I took a moment, and then I realized, you know what, there's a lot of girls who do wear this, and this is their reality. It just made me even more prouder to wear it.

I'm from New Orleans, but I lived in L.A. for a very long time.

I just kind of, like, know who I am. I think that comes from having an incredibly strong sense of purpose for a very long time.

I prepared myself for Miss Universe for a very long time, for years, and I would always try to imagine what it would be like to introduce myself as Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe.

I like the idea that the body is a vessel, that it's not necessarily representative of the real you that's inside of it.

I was an empty vessel just floating through L.A. and raising children, and I was doing it alone. When my relationship started blossoming with Angie and then when we got engaged, I knew I wanted to get back to my roots of where I came from and what I grew up in.

He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.