Quotes About Identity

I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least.

I really liked it best when I was a nobody.

Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

Being put in a group, I hate that. I don't think anyone likes it. Everyone just wants to be their own person.

I'm not a model or an actress; I'm just a 23 year old who likes to talk about science. Why does what I look like matter so much?

You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.

People liked me in the character of an old person and I started liking that too.

I don't know why some women don't wear make-up. Every woman should gild the lily.

I was born into the limelight. So, my biggest achievement, which I worked hard for, is to stay normal.

You can be as good an actor as you want but, if your accent is too strong, it's going to limit you.

My childhood is always going to limit me.

Don't limit yourself to wearing a black dress because it's 'slimming.'

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

When I was 18, and my looks were what I was - and all that I was - it did feel very limiting.

One of the problems we had was trying to live up to this bubbly image. All the music was supposed to be bubbly. That's what people expected from us. But that was very limiting.

I like the fact that I come with a lineage and have a filmi background.

Growing up, I never felt like I was very pretty, because I didn't look like anyone else, and the boys weren't lining up to get with me. I internalized that and thought there was something wrong with me.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.

'Lauv' comes from the Latvian word for lion, and my mom's side of the family is from Latvia - it's a place I've been probably 15 times or more. I'm also a Leo, and my real name, Ari, means lion.

I don't want my fans to think they have to get lip fillers or look like me in any way.

I don't feel like myself without the red lip. I feel like I'm taking a risk or something without it.

Lip synching in a video is usually my idea of hell.