Quotes About Identity

Everyone has different layers to who they are.

There are a lot of layers to me.

I think people have a lot of layers. I know I do in particular.

I definitely have a lot of different layers inside of me.

Why was it important for women to be only nice? Why can't she have dark layers? So when they came to me - films like 'Maqbool' and 'Astitva' - they just grabbed me, and I wanted to be part of them.

Everybody has layers.

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

When not dressed as Conchita I am a man, and a lazy one at that.

I'm definitely the lazy one in the family.

When I first started out, there were times I would dress or act in a way because I thought it was expected of me or that people would take me more seriously. But once I started leading in a way that was authentically me, that is when I really started to see success.

If everyone can say, looking at Obama, that is he is one of us, is that not befitting for the leading country in the world?

For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.

I'm not built like a leading man.

I don't know - the whole leading man, I don't buy it.

Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn't look at me and go, 'He's a leading man.'

Your past always leads to who you are.

I don't know if any woman is completely happy with the way she leads her life or with the way people treat her.

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

I've learnt that it's possible to be as anonymous as you want. It's a choice, and I've become very, very good at being anonymous.

In the States is when I learnt about racism and I started to learn and embrace who I was.

I think people took a while to accept me for who I am, and I've learnt to articulate myself better when on camera.

This is me. Take it or leave it.