Quotes About Identity

The world is not going to come to an end because I'm not going to play football anymore.

I'd rather not play football at all than have to change my style.

I play football, but at the end of the day, it doesn't define me.

I don't play golf.

There are a lot of hip-hoppers who play golf.

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

We're four guys that play music. We're not a part of any genre. We just happened to have come out in 1998.

That whole 'Bo' Selecta!' thing was damaging. I played along with it; I said it was cool, I can take a joke, roll with it, so I went on the show. But it was killing me.

After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

I got racist abuse at Liverpool when I played for Watford. Then I played for Liverpool and didn't get it. If I had played for Everton against Liverpool then maybe the Liverpool fans would have racially abused me.

I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

But in Hollywood especially, I think the most exciting thing for me is to finally see that LGBTQ parts are being played by LGBTQ actors.

I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.

I've never played someone where I felt it was beneficial to build from the outside in.

When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

I don't know anything about being a royal child. But I have played Shakespearian kings.

I'm just a dumb guitar player, man.

I know I'm black. Everyone knows I'm black. But I don't want to be defined as a black hockey player.

I'm not a freak show. I'm a hockey player.

I still don't really feel like a bass player.