Quotes About Identity

Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.

I didn't want to be the next version of any player - I wanted to establish my own name.

By now, people should know who I am. I have established myself as Rich the Kid, so people respect me.

I think I've established my own identity here at Brandeis.

If I had taken 'Gilligan's Island,' I would never have gotten 'Coach' because I would have been established as Gilligan.

I play for my country and I am an established international.

I'm of the establishment but anti-establishment.

In Heidelberg, in Hoffenheim, there's not much going on. I am so used to being around my London estate, so when I am here I am kind of lost in a different environment, a different area.

I grew up on an estate in Peckham.

People hold my father in very high esteem, but what was amazing was that nobody looked at me as a woman; I was never made aware of the fact that I am a woman.

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

I would get a lot of roles for the ethnic friend and then I would go in for that and not be ethnic enough. They wanted an Indian accent. They wanted something more very visually, clearly specific.

The only thing that said 'Lando Calrissian' was ethnic was his looks.

I've always made a point to play roles that aren't specified by their ethnicity.

I'm an Indian and I shall not do anything that goes against my ethos.

Headliners, no matter the genre, usually are a person or band who has an ethos.

I tried to play the etiquette game - the respect game - for too long, and it didn't work out for me.

Europe is one thing. The euro is something else.

An Australian actor wouldn't have the experience to feel how it is to be in Australia as a European.

My life is European.

We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.

There is no 'European people' united by common mores.

I thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European.