Quotes About Identity

Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.

There's no separation anymore between who I am and what I create.

I don't know if I'm a sequels kind of person. I prefer each film to have its own unique identity.

When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

I'm not BJP's servant.

I served my country; I did that. I was in the C.I.A., and I served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I love this country with every part of my body, and I was willing to risk my body and my family for it. But I wake up in a country I don't understand anymore.

In general, we as women, but also Latinas, we're always kind of serving other characters.

I remember watching 'Sesame Street' as a kid and loving that there were Latino characters on there.

I've had some real hard setbacks in this sport and I learned to realize that you can't really build who you are on what people say. That's ultimately building your foundation in sand.

When I retired from the NFL, no one knew who I was, and I had to start all over. I ended up doing security in L.A., and I was just on movie sets and watching.

I wasn't the star-obsessed person. I never wanted to meet stars at film sets.

If you truly want to find a meaningful relationship, you've got to find yourself first and learn to be confident in your own skin. Don't sacrifice anything about who you are to be with someone. That's setting yourself up for failure.

I've been Austin almost half my life. In almost every public setting, that's why I'm there - to be Austin Aries.

All I can do is be myself, do what I do and if people find inspiration then that's great but it's not what I'm setting out to do.

Who you are is what you settle for, you know?

I am a Malayali. My ancestors are from Tamil Nadu, but they settled in Irinjalakuda.

There is nothing wrong with the name White Settlement, and the majority here is proud of the name.

Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.

People always come up to me and say, Oh, you're Chloe Se-VIG-ny, right? Sevigny. Number seven, letter e.

I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement.

I've lived in the same apartment since seventh grade. It's in my name now; my mom moved upstate.

I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.

I was kind of lost for several years.