Quotes About Identity

The stories I always see about a first-generation kid trying to erase where they came from, or trying to just be white, I would watch those shows or movies and I was like, 'I don't get this.' This isn't how I feel.

Nobody's going to erase mine or anyone's existence.

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.

I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

You can't escape from what you are.

You can escape into a character.

It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.

For some people, it's impossible to escape binaries.

I can understand wanting to escape your life and be someone else.

You can't escape your face.

There's no way to escape who we are.

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

I think there is an idea, a unique essence to every club.

Things have definitely changed for me since becoming a mother, but I haven't for one second lost the essence of who I am and what I do.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

I think it's absolutely essential that the people that work for a company need to feel that they're part of something bigger - that it's not just a job.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

For some reason, I don't like the term 'model-turned-actress' - which is what I am, essentially.

'Call Me by Your Name' is essentially the universal nature of love.

Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

I would like to establish myself. I don't want to just have a moment.