Quotes About Identity

Don't dye your hair... I've never dyed it.

I even pretended years ago to be an African, a half-caste African, but because of my light eyes I did not get away with it, but I dyed my hair black.

Cajun culture is dying.

I'm dying for people to let me be funny!

Middle America is dying for a voice.

A lot of people know who I am before I've met them, which is a weird dynamic.

I'm very proud of my dyslexia. I wouldn't have it any other way. It sits absolutely with what I do, how I think, and who I am.

I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.

I feel like every person has a disability in some way. Whether you're dyslexic or Republican or whatever.

I'll talk your ear off if you recognize me.

'Balika Vadhu' happened to me because I worked hard in my earlier shows. So, in a way, they are responsible for building my identity.

People don't remember my work in my earlier films, as 'PKP' has been etched forever in their minds. So, I get similar kind of roles.

Earlier, I used to always ask people if they want me to answer as Supriya or Hansa. If they said Hansa, and asked me a question, I would say, I don't know. That's because Hansa doesn't know anything! For me, it was important to reach that state of thing in mind where I don't question anything.

My earliest memories are of dysphoria.

In the very early days of Wham! the attention felt great, but I do wonder how much freedom I gave away by trying to become something I wasn't.

I had to learn some hard lessons in my early days because I was a bit of a showman, a kind of Jekyl and Hyde character.

Black women have earned the right to be basic.

To some degree, I think playing yourself has to be earned.

I earned my famous name.

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

Not only did I cross-dress at 10, playing Rosalind in 'As You Like It,' I also found myself in a cross-dressed part at 60, when I played Lady Bracknell in 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

I always got my earrings on me.

There's a constant struggle between my ears about who I am and what I mean to the world.