Quotes About Identity

It is important to me that I was not raised in Los Angeles.

My first son was born in Los Angeles; he's a Mexican-American.

I don't like to lose, and all Serbians are pretty much the same.

I don't want to lose myself for someone else.

If you lose who you are, what do you have?

It is strange when you're a loser in college, which I was, to then get your own show.

Becoming an actor let me escape the me that I had in my heart, which was I'm a loser.

I was a loser in high school.

Losers don't always know that they are losers.

If all countries are exceptional, the word loses its meaning.

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.

I don't think I'm egotistical, and I know what my limits are: I'm a black guy who's probably losing his hair. But I'm happy to play roles that I'm given, and I'm happy to play roles that I write.

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame.

I'm not going to be a gatekeeper. You would look at the four losses and assume, 'Well, he could be a gatekeeper now.' It's not the life that I want to live.

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

I was born with lots of deformities.

I've been parading around, leading people, being loud, since forever.

I'm a gay man and a proud gay man and a loud gay man.

I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.

I grew up in Carville, Louisiana.

I get a lot of the time, 'We don't know how to market you,' or, 'You're too big.' Or, 'We have one of you already,'. But you don't have one of me already; you don't have a seven-foot, lovable guy. You don't have that.