Quotes About Identity

I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

My family were from Jamaica.

My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me.

I got born in the wrong family.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

Argentina is my country, my family, my way of expressing myself. I would trade all of my records for the World Cup trophy.

My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.

Jello's Biafra kind of like my weird, retarded uncle. He's part of the family.

Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.

People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.

I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.