Quotes About Identity

Language does not make one an elite.

In athletics there are so many great elite athletes who look like me, so it was easy to fall into.

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am.

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

I would like to do the Elvis Presley.

I look good, but I probably have the insides of Elvis.

I think everybody's got a little Elvis in them.

A lot of your rock people, even early, like Elvis, have always come from the South.

My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

There are times even I am a bit embarrassed by my look.

I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.

I'm happy to do gay material, and I'm gay, and I'm not embarrassed about it, but it's nice not being limited to only doing gay material.

There's nobody in the arts in my family. It was kind of embarrassing to even say that I wanted to be an actor.

Everybody asks me if I sing on this record. Even my mother asks me. I am a very proud person and this is embarrassing.

I truly have New York embedded in my blood.

People like Donald Trump because he embodies the things that they have in themselves that they don't want to say. He's racist.

I consider myself an embodiment of the American dream: an all-American Indian.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

Some people are both genders. I think you just come out the way you come out, and you have to embrace it honestly.

I think it's really important to embrace what's different about yourself.

I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.

People should embrace themselves.

We all wish we could find and embrace our voice, our strength.