Quotes About Identity

Some day, I'm in a horror movie, and some days I'm in, like, a sweet, independent feature about relationship.

I want to do different things. I don't want to be stuck in the 'sweet girl' box. I don't want to be stuck in the 'Oh, she is so glamorous' box.

I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.

I won't say I'm tired of playing the sweet girl next-door who looks at life each day with wide-eyed wonder. But I do crave for a change of image.

The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.

For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl.

Representing the U.S.A. is one of the greatest honors of my life, and being able to do it as my authentic self makes it all so much sweeter.

I'm not like a gay icon or America's gay sweetheart. I'm just America's sweetheart, and I'm just an icon.

I've never really been America's sweetheart, but for a minute I think that's what they wanted me to be.

I'm not Sammi Sweetheart in my private life.

I became the nation's sweetheart because I'm a safe gay. I'm non-intrusive.

Normally I get called Sammi Sweetheart on a daily basis.

When people call me the Amitabh of the Bhojpuri experience, I feel my chest swell with pride.

It's real easy in a lot of businesses for your head to swell up, and you become somebody else. So that's one of my main goals in the business - to continue to be me.

I used to have a voice because I was interviewing people and writing, but as soon as I got swept up in the fashion world, I was just a pretty girl at a party wearing a pretty dress.

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.

The 1990s, in New York at least, were all about who could have the baggiest pants, and I definitely got swept up in that fad. Luckily, it didn't last long - but I've made sure that my pants fit ever since.

My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life.

I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.

I know I'm enough with or without the gold medals. I just love to swim.

I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'

I'm not a highly outgoing person. I'm pretty guarded when you first meet me. But being in a Speedo for my entire life growing up, because I was a swimmer, and being naked in front of people now, doesn't really bother me.

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

My boyfriend is not a swimmer!