Quotes About Identity

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

There is this idea in comedy that you don't want to look like you care about your appearance because that takes away from what's real, what's important. And the real stuff is what's funny.

I think that art, and making music or comedy, is a way of positing yourself on the map and then trying to find other people out there with you.

I am a rootless individual, but when I land in Belize, I have that feeling of comfort that I am returning home.

America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.

You can always go back to the place where you were comfortable, the place where you're from.

It is very important for me that my clothes are comfortable and allow me to feel like myself and at ease.

Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.

As a little boy, I never felt comfortable with being human.

You should build yourself according to your own body and be comfortable.

I would not have been comfortable in front of the camera.

You've just got to be comfortable with yourself.

It took me seven years to even comfortably say that I'm an actor.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.

I never wanted to be road comic.

I was born a comic.

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

The more time you spend with any character, whether it's from a comic book universe or a really naturalistic universe, the more time you spend, the more that character just becomes another aspect of yourself.

I still feel it's kind of weird to say, 'I'm a comic book writer.'

I grew up with comic books, and I'm from the Caribbean, so comic books were really a great interrogator of American culture for me.

I want to show there's an edgier side of people who love comic books. And there are people who don't look like you and me who do read comic books and who love artists.