Quotes About Identity

When I went to drama school, I thought that everybody would think I was only there because my dad was on TV.

Everyone at drama school called me Musical Boy.

If I call myself an actor, it sounds like I'm trying to pass myself off as someone who went to drama school.

It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.

I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!

I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.

I don't want to look like a woman. I want to look like a drawing of a woman.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

I don't think we know who a lot of these athletes are. We think we do, but they're never allowed to be themselves. Because the minute they try, people are saying, What's wrong with him? Why is he drawing attention to himself?

That's what I'm drawn to: playing characters that are completely different.

Coming from Akkineni family, I could say I was drawn into cinema, but nobody forced me to become an actor.

I have become that mother I used to dread.

You can't tell me that I can't dress!

I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

I dress like a 30-year-old woman.

Yes, I play dress up! I do it for a living, like a retard!

I didn't really play dress up when I was a kid, and I'm really T-shirt and jeans-y.

I consider myself a boy in a dress.

I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.

I don't like it when people dress up like Zim, because they look like Hulks.

If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.