Quotes About Identity

I have never told a lie or modulated my natural voice... I can't help what people think sounds male or female.

I view myself as a male artist.

There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.

What is male and what is female? I don't always feel female.

Male actors have to lie about their ages, too.

Asian males have not been appreciated for what they are. They have always been dissed for what they are not.

For a lot of people, I will always be the mall girl, and that's OK. That was my start. But I can do so much more than that.

I think that identity and sort of the brand - I hate that word - the brand of the musician should be malleable. It should change, and it should grow.

I'm the wife. I'm the mom. I'm the friend. And, you know, my friends call me 'Mama T,' or 'Dr. T,' and that's, guess, what I am - the Mama T and the Dr. T. That's who I am.

My mama told me it's not what they call you - it's what you answer to.

Since 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' I started to spend a lot of time in the United States, and my son was born there.

My mama's name is Mescal.

Basketball is very important to me. But I know I can make an impact on this world in many other ways. I know I can be many other things. And of course, one of them is still being a mama's boy.

I've had alopecia since I was 3, so quite a few years. I grew up with it, and it was always very manageable.

I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.

I'm really a normal football manager.

After I won Miss Universe, my managers started telling me I have to start putting on less makeup.

I'm looking forward to it, to be able to represent the black culture... but I'm doing my best at managing it, keeping it behind me, and that's the best thing I can do.

There is only one club in Manchester.

I feel like, City, because they're this modern global team, in the United States we think they're a really big club. But here in Manchester, it's not a big club.

I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.

I love Manchester. I always have, ever since I was a kid, and I go back as much as I can. Manchester's my spiritual home. I've been in London for 22 years now but Manchester's the only other place, I think, in the country that I could live.

People have said, 'Oh, but you don't look like you're from Manchester.' And I always want to ask, 'What the hell does someone from Manchester look like?'

I was born in Manchester, England.