Quotes About Identity

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.

I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island.

I grew up playing for Manhasset High on Long Island on a team with six black guys.

I'm from Long Island, which is a very cookie-cutter place.

Old coaches, I think everybody will tell you, you got to be who you are, because you try to be somebody you are not and it'll get you. It might work for five minutes but it's not going to work in the long run.

I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a long time ago maybe my accent would have got less.

I'm a long way from being a Damien Hirst.

My mom wouldn't let me dye my hair for the longest time.

The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

Early on, my family really made me love who I was and what I looked like.

Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl.

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

I'm looking forward to just being a mom and being normal.

Looks aren't important. It's your life and mind.

Shakti' is a very loose adaptation of 'Not Without My Daughter.'

I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am.

I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.

I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

I knew I had to stop running. I had to be in a place. Los Angeles became that place.

I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.

I am from Los Angeles, and my parents are from Los Angeles.

There's an amazing movie called 'Los Angeles Plays Itself.'