Quotes About Identity

I wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to?

I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.

If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved dressing up.

When I was a little girl, I was a real, drippy bookworm. But when I went into fashion, I stopped reading.

I don't think I've changed since I was a little kid.

As a little kid, I'd put on shows for my family. I would sing songs and play piano. I thought while growing up in high school that I would stick with music and try to make a career out of that. As I gave it an honest, real shot, I realized it was not for me.

We all have our own little thing, I think.

As an actor, I am always in one character or the other and get very little time to be Nana Patekar. So whenever I can, I love to be alone and by myself. That way, I get time to think and introspect.

I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character.

I was born a girl; it just took me a little while to become one fully.

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

Acting is kind of an escape. You get to live life as someone else, and when you're living this life as someone else, you don't really have time to think about your own life.

People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.

I feel as though I have established myself at Liverpool and I am enjoying it.

Liverpool will always be my home.

I consider Liverpool my home, and it will always be like that. It's what they say: once a Red, always a Red.

Liverpool and London are two places I looked upon as home.

I grew up a lot as a professional and as a person in Liverpool, and I have very strong links to the club and the city.

I'd like Everton to be known as the better team in Liverpool.

Not playing for Liverpool would hurt me more than not playing for England.

I have always felt like a Liverpool player.

Liverpool is a family, it is not a club, you don't come in and out of this club without it leaving a mark.

There are loads of women that don't want children. What does it matter? I'm still a woman.