Quotes About Identity

I very much feel like I'm part of the makeup of 'Once Upon a Time.'

I always felt more comfortable with a full face of makeup.

Maybe it's my age, but I know I look good, so I'm not going to look like another person suddenly because I don't have makeup on - same hair, same person.

I asked, 'What is this guy?' They said, he's part-fish, part-bird, maybe a bit of lizard, and you don't have to go through five hours of makeup to play him. That was good enough for me.

I, Lesley, I like looking nice. I like doing my hair and wearing makeup and wearing nice clothes. But I don't care what my characters look like.

I never really wore makeup in high school; I wasn't really into it yet, which is probably good.

During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.

I love being super-tough, but if I need to put on a dress and do my hair and makeup, I can do that, too.

I'd like to dress up more often and wear dresses, but I never get the chance. I'd also like to learn to do my own makeup.

My body, my clothes, and my makeup are on purpose, just as I am on purpose.

I just loved makeup. My mother loved it as well - and was obsessed by the fact that we couldn't find any makeup for dark skin.

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.

I was just making movies to make movies. I was so full of anxiety about becoming a filmmaker that I kind of lost the idea of why I was doing it.

Home, to me, is where I am and where I feel most comfortable. Obviously, Malaysia is home. In L.A., my home is my apartment because that's my Malaysia.

'Malcolm X' was impressionable for me as a kid.

Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.

I feel so much more comfortable that I've ever been. I've felt male as far back as I can remember.

Really, in a way, I took over the male role.

I've got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I'm like a zeta male.

I've lived my whole life exactly the way I've wanted to. Being gay, being white, being male, it doesn't matter to me. They're all things I'm born with.

A woman is a woman. A woman has male problems, has job problems, and I think funny is funny.

I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything else in this lifetime than an African American man.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.