Quotes About Identity

Staten Island is segregated, but it's also - I don't know. It's, like, it's not - it's not unprogressive.

My mother was born into a segregated America. How crazy is that?

I'm the son of a Black man who was born in the segregated South.

Even when I watch it, I laugh, because I think, 'That's me! I'm on 'Seinfeld.''

It was always difficult to go to the mall because I wanted to dress like everybody else and go to Abercrombie & Fitch and Hollister, but I knew there wasn't much of a selection for me.

Since I don't have an image to be worried about, I am not concerned about it when it comes to selection of my roles.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Harry Dean Stanton

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

Every woman has... self doubt.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

The people who are most attractive to me are those who feel most comfortable in their skin - there's a sense of self-acceptance.

Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self.

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?

My self-confidence doesn't come from my looks.

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.

I think Man Repeller is more about self-confidence than it is about a woman's relationship with a man.