Quotes About Identity

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

My father belonged to a Jewish social club.

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

I have become my own father.

I don't know where my father is from. I just don't. He's lived in so many countries.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.

What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being at all.

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for those figures in their lives.

When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'

A true hero protects his identiy, not out of fear, but out of humility.

My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.

If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.

The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.