Quotes About Identity

Saying to someone 'I'm a transsexual' is the most empowering thing I've ever felt in my whole life.

Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.

That's what 'LM5' is about, empowering women to be who they are.

Female empowerment is very strong in my life and that's how I am.

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

It's very hard to imagine anybody being president when the stuff that's written about them is empty of who they are.

I'm English, so I can be very 'half empty.'

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

We did a thing that we would call we call 'hirstories.' H - I - R - S - T - O - R - Y. I would enact a young Mort. And that always felt - it was so funny - it felt more difficult than playing Maura.

I became completely enamored of the idea that I would play someone I knew personally.

Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.

Being fetishized because of my skin? I've definitely encountered that wall of people.

You create a proto-human being out of people that you've encountered in your life, and you start building up this person and start becoming this person.

My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.

I mean, autographs are so funny. I don't think it's good to encourage that sort of thing. Why do people want to have an autograph? What does it do for you?

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

At the end of the day, l just want to be myself. I don't set out to be like anyone else.

I'm a man at the end of the day.

I am who I am. At the end of the day, you've got to be who you are.

At the end of the day, you can't take my love for my people away.

At the end of the day, I'm a man.

I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.

I don't know anymore where I begin and Obama ends.

Sometimes, the hate that I endure is not necessarily about me but about the space I'm in.