Quotes About Identity

It just so happens that I'm trans. It shouldn't have to be like 'Oh, that's the trans model selling the trans clothes.'

I don't believe in either selling or marketing myself.

There's this idea that Hollywood sells over and over again: 'If I just looked more like this, I'd be accepted.'

Everything of mine sells. An envelope with my name on it sells.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

Guys are really lucky. We become our authentic selves the older we get.

There's a joke in my family that I'm going to make a career out of playing other people's younger selves.

We need to be our natural selves.

I can't be everything to everyone. Send me your specs.

I wish my name was Cobb. Then they would send over a Cobb salad.

He was the main guy at Manchester United, and he's a guy I really look up to and who I learn from a lot because we share the same agent. Here and there, he sends a bit of advice to me, and it helps me improve. But I'm Romelu Lukaku - I'm not Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

I read for the sensation of becoming another person; I write for the same sensation.

We've always had a sense of humor - look at our name.

I want to keep the British side of my sense of humor.

I'm proud of my middle-class background because that's how I've grown up. I have my values and sensibilities.

I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well.

Vanity is a sensitive subject for gay men.

I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.

My whole life, I've been the one in my family that's always too emotional and too sensitive. That's, like, my role in my family.

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

I get sent a lot of scripts where you're just the mom.

There are still parts of the country where it's hard: when you realize you're gay, it's like a death sentence.

People think my name is Morpheus. Many times, people will say to me, 'Morpheus!' and I will complete the sentence by saying, 'is not my name!'

Growing up as an Asian American, we're lucky to have two sentences in a history book about the Chinese-American experience.