Quotes About Identity

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life. —Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

People in South Philly don't spend a lot of time talking about French royalty. Still, I don't want to look like an idiot, so I shovel on more lies.

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.

I am beyond good and evil at this point. I am beyond the lines drawn in the sand by society at this juncture. I am beyond fear, beyond religion, beyond the morals and mores. I am Lord of the Fucking Flies. Do you understand?

A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.

Rap music is the newspaper of black people.

Once you're several generations removed from your cultural heritage, how much connection is truly possible? Bits and pieces might be integrated into home life—a cultural event here, some ethnic food there—but for the most part the upbringing is American.

Never in his unlimited lifespan had he ever allowed anyone to call him anything but President Gorlax. Even when he was a fledgling, and not even a president. The other kids hated him for it. He had them killed.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled , that's all.

Some are born Welsh. Some achieve Welshness. I am going to thrust myself upon Wales.

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

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Las personas tal vez consistimos, en suma, tanto en lo que somos como en lo que hemos sido, tanto en lo comprobable y cuantificable y recordable como en lo más incierto, indeciso y difuminado, quizá estamos hechos en igual medida de lo que fue y de lo que pudo ser.

y sin embargo nos va la vida y se nos va la vida en escoger y rechazar y seleccionar, en trazar una línea que separe esas cosas que son idénticas y haga de nuestra historia una historia única que recordemos y pueda contarse.

Cuanto más despersonalizado un grupo, menos reflexivo y más sordo y ciego, más granítico y más fanático. Hay algo religioso en todos ellos, heredan enemigos y veneraciones y creencias que jamás cuestiona nadie, esa es su fuerza.

Qué desgracia saber tu nombre aunque ya no conozca tu rostro mañana

qué desgracia saber tu nombre aunque ya no conozca hoy tu rostro y aún menos lo conozca mañana.

valójában bárki megsemmisíthet bennünket, ahogyan meg is hódíthat bárki, és ebben rejlik törékenységünk lényege.

Incontable es el número de criaturas que han tomado por padre a quien no lo era suyo y por hermanos a quienes lo eran a medias