Quotes About Identity

People have expectations of what you are as a writer. And writers, on the whole, don't like to be classified.

I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.

I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.

I guess if I had to classify myself, I'd say I'm straight.

I think, even before social media, it was really hard to not look at other classmates and say, 'Well I wish I looked like her.' Or even to look at celebrities and wish that 'I looked like them.'

I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.

I am the type of guy that has always been the same all of my life. My classmates at our class reunion always say the same thing. They could not believe that, being a world artist, I still seem like I was when we were at school together.

I went to bar mitzvahs as a kid. I had a lot of classmates who are Jewish.

I want to be the Cassius Clay of snooker. Cassius is the greatest at boxing and that's what I mean to be at snooker.

An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.

I'm known clean around the Earth.

I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.

I played a lawyer in a movie, so, many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.

I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

Clearly I've got an ego.

I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera.

I was born into the Church of England but in the most nominal way possible you can imagine, so it's Christmas and Easter. And then like a great many clergy in the Church of England I actually got nobbled by being a chorister.

I do feel like a Clevelander. Every time, when people ask me, I automatically say, 'My home is Cleveland.'

Home is where the heart is, and my heart will forever be in Cleveland.

I always thought Grover Cleveland was from Cleveland.

I am a Cleveland Brown. I am proud and happy about that.

I am forever a Cleveland Brown.

I am always going to be the same guy. The fireman that lives in Cleveland.