Quotes About Identity

You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.

It's not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

Feel good about yourself. Feel good about who you are.

At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces. I've had them forever.'

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.

I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.

And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.

I was never a good-looking bloke. Not by a long chalk.

I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.

As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

Sometimes people tell me I'm a good guy. Thank God, I'd probably be a terrible woman