Quotes About Identity

It's so funny because people always think of me as being a little bit country or assume that I am from the South - I don't know why!

People are always going to assume I got my roles because of my father. There's not much I can do about that. He and I talk about the business sometimes, but he's my dad.

I never assume people are going to recognize me.

I'm not a down-in-the-dumps person. I think some people assume that I am because of the music I write.

I never walk into a room and assume everyone knows who Raheem DeVaughn is.

People used to assume I was a serious/sad person because of my music for some reason.

I can see how people would just assume I am a no-nonsense kind of girl, you know? But the truth is, it's not who I am. But when I need to be, I can be tough.

Although I grew up around movies, I don't know that I assumed I was going to be an actor.

If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects, poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that.

Since I worked with Prince, people assumed that I was black.

Even in Australia, where I've had success, I never assumed that people would follow me because of who I am.

I've read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that's not true. I think that's just people assuming things. In some ways, I wish I was raised Episcopalian. I was kind of raised hodgepodge.

I was standing in the street with people walking past me and I could feel my face evaporating. I thought I was on fire as the acid ate at my skin.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

It's not any huge secret that I'm an atheist.

I was raised Christian; I was raised in the South where everybody's raised Christian, but at this point, I'm 41 years old, and I've been an atheist, at this point, a little more than half my life.

I'm a Christian who happens to be an athlete, not the other way around.

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

I'm never going to be an athlete, never going to be running triathlons - I'm not that person.

Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

I'm proud of my body, I'm proud of my sport, I'm proud of being a female athlete.

People still think I'm a bit of a buffoon - not really an athlete.

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.