Quotes About Identity

I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

There's nothing exceptional about me, but there's something exceptional about Jaime Lannister, and I think that's what's interesting.

When you talk about being exceptional, you do two things: You clearly answer the question 'Who are you?' which is your purpose. And you answer the second question, 'Where are you going?' which is your aspiration and how you're going to get there.

I think I used Christine, who is my stage character, as an excuse to finally be myself, as if I needed to say, 'Oh this character is going to be the woman I wanted to be.'

I've been in games where execution hasn't gone like you want it. The key is you remain confident because you know who you are.

I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.

Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.

I'd love to do something that doesn't have my stupid face in front of it. I feel like I've exhausted what I can do with my own face.

Being a black person in America is exhausting.

It's exhausting being a woman.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

Golshifteh Farahani

I exist as I am, that is enough.

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

I don't exist without writing.

I don't like to think of myself as just a person. I don't think I am. I think I existed before, and I think I'll exist again after I die here, so I don't exactly know what I am. I don't think there is ever going to be an answer. I just know that I'm not like you.

Sometimes I wish that Anna Wintour didn't know I existed.

People didn't know that I existed before 'Purpose.'

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.

I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.