Quotes About Identity

I've written before that the president is our national avatar - a stand-in for what we believe we are, or want to be.

My father's house was on East 55th Street on 1st and 2nd Avenues. I'm fifth-generation Marino in the East 50s - I live on 57th Street. I can't be more East 50s.

Let's just face it: The average girl is not 6-3. I look very average.

I'm only 5-foot-6, but people think I'm sort of a great big Viking woman. I'm not - I'm completely normal and average.

I'm an average person.

I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent 19 years of my life there. Being a kid, my early musical experiences were there.

I'm going to be a Ronda Rousey in the strawweight division. They'll call me 'JJ' instead of 'RR.'

I don't want to be in an easy division, I don't want to be a champion that no one knows.

I don't think there's anything divisive about me.

Talking about class and identity can be as divisive as talking about race and racism.

Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.

I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

My name is Ralphie. How many Ralphie's do you know? It's unique.

Every once in a while, I'll have a 'Do you know who I am?' moment, at least in my head. I hate that.

I think it's healthy to say, 'I'm 58 and, do you know what, this is what a 58-year-old woman looks like.'

I really should have been a pharaoh - do you know that?

I didn't want to use my father's name. I don't think I will ever want to use his influence... Never have I gone around asking people, 'Do you know who I am...' Even if it's to cut a line at the airport.

I'll be at the airport, and people will say, 'Mantis!' and I'm like, 'Wait! How do you know I'm here?' It's just crazy.

I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.

I didn't want to be Doctor Who in a 'Doctor Who' that I didn't like.

I grew up in the U.K., and my parents are both doctors.

I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.