Quotes About Identity

I think the most important part of anyone creating videos or creating anything is just being genuine and having it be true to what you want to do and who you are.

I think kind of what you see in the videos is true to me, if not maybe a slightly heightened version of my real self.

I'm not the guy trying to be all up in the videos and be a celebrity. I feel like I'm going to lose a certain amount of my privacy if I do that.

There's an underlying sense with 'Tongue' that... it's really... it's real. I mean that in the sense that now I'm not afraid to touch on relationships and on my sexuality in my videos.

I think I have more fun making jokes online and making stupid Instagram videos than I do in my real life, on stage.

Always feeling secondary and just being a voice rather than known as the song writer and artist... it's been a challenge to even get music videos of most of the features I'm on, so I'm pleased people are starting to recognise me as an artist in my own right.

I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.

I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share.

My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.

As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.

I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city.

But yes, I really feel great in Austria, I love my home and Vienna is just the best place to be.

'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.

I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

My family had to leave Vietnam because my uncles fought alongside the Aussies.

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

I was born in Vietnam, and I was adopted by an Irish lady and a Hungarian man, and then I moved to America.

If the U.S. has its Vietnam... the Soviet Union has its Czechoslovakia. If the U.S. has its blacks and chicanos, then the Soviets have their Jews.

In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.

In Hollywood, I was never restricted to just one Asian character. I've been cast as a Chinese, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Japanese and a Cambodian.

I've been doing the Vietnamese nail lady impressions since my mom first took me to get my nails done when I was 12.

It's inspiring to see Black Flag looking like Vietnamese farmers with big beards and those kind of Vietnamese farming hats showing up at a Mohawk-mania club in England and being spat at because they don't sound or look like Exploited; they sound more like Black Sabbath than Black Flag. I love that.