Quotes About Identity

I know Asian actors out there won't even audition for a role that have an accent. But for me, I was the kid with an accent. I still have an accent to some degree.

I think I had something to prove to myself, that I could book a cis role and then if I did come out one day and start auditioning for trans roles, I could say, 'Look, I've already worked in a cis role.'

I've been asked far too often, 'Can you be blacker?' I've gotten done with auditions and heard, 'We're not going to go black with this character.'

I never had that star aura.

Of all the places I've ever been, Austin is the only place that has felt like home. I fit in here.

I grew up lower-middle class outside of Austin, I'm a white guy, and I write movies.

I don't have a place anywhere but Australia; I just don't spend much time there.

Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

I could definitely see myself living back in Australia again. If I had a family, I could move back.

Australia is the place I know best.

It seems that people are tired of everyone looking the same on television. And this seems especially true for white people. Even white people are tired of watching the same white people. That's why we've been importing them from Australia.

I think being back in Australia has kind of helped a little bit because you just feel really comfortable around everyone, and it's the same environment that I've grown up in.

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.

I think mine's such a mish-mash now: I get criticised for sounding like a Yank when I come home, and everybody thinks I'm Australian when I'm in America.

Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.

I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian.

I talk about being Australian a lot.

My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.

I love New York, and I love being here, but I think I'll always be Australian at heart.

I was born in Australia and am proud of my Australian provenance, but I am now an American. Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one.

It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want.

Australia's beautiful, but I'm not too into Australian culture.

My father was Australian.