Quotes About Identity

People balk at the fact that I've played loads of gay characters. Maybe I have, but you know what? It doesn't matter.

You have to have a name when you're young, I went through loads.

Loads of people thought we were gay.

Loads of people call me Bax. In my family I'm often called Hel, which isn't as nice.

We really wanted to be rock 'n' roll, so we became rock 'n' roll, and really good at it, but you pick up loads of layers and you completely forget who you are and what you are.

I feel kind of limited and locked into my body and brain - I'm not super into it all the time.

I think I fit into any type of system because I don't really have a certain position. Sometimes people try and label me, but I don't look at myself as being locked into one position.

Culture has no logic.

If we did not have a sense of who we were, how we got here, why we want to achieve something - which, on the face of it, on the logic of it, is probably not worth trying - and prove that logic wrong, then you wouldn't succeed; then you would just evaporate.

I'm kind of brandless. I don't like big logos or whatever.

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

I feel very at home in London for some reason.

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?

When I come to London now it's like being in L.A., because they know me like I'm at home.

For me, London is and always will be home.

I feel at home when I go to London.

There comes a real loneliness in celebrity where you're constantly told you're part of an out group in your own society.

Just speaking for myself, when I'm complimented for being Vietnamese-American in television - the only one - that doesn't make me feel happy, that makes me feel really lonely, actually.

I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.

It feels nice after a long career as an actor to find your own voice and support that.

I can't imagine having long hair anymore; it's weird.

I was probably the only kid in school that had long hair.

I never felt comfortable with long hair so it didn't make sense to be looking that way.

I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.