Quotes About Identity

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

I am so confident and empowered by my sexuality; it plays an enormous part in my life.

It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

Every national side plays according to their characteristics and the kind of entertainment they like.

You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.

I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.

Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.

Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

I never wanted to be a playwright.

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

When I was in school, I didn't get exposed to Latino playwrights.

I definitely don't plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.

I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.

My detractors, who delight in using my name as a byword for unattractiveness, will find it hard to believe, but looking in the mirror is a pleasant experience.