Quotes About Identity

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

I was born and raised a guido. It's just a lifestyle, it's being Italian, it's representing, family, friends, tanning, gel, everything.

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

I'm the only hell my Mama ever raised.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

My family came from Ecuador.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

When I read the books, I imagined that the family of Ron Weasley was my family.

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

I'm the curvy one of the family.

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.

I'm going to be me at the end of the day. And I think my family appreciates that. They're happy for me that I'm finding out who I am, and I'm content with that.

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.

For me, it's all about who you are. Some athletes may feel a responsibility. Some may not. One thing I've talked with my family and team about is doing more. Trying to make an impact.