Quotes About Identity

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

I'm not a sex symbol.

It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

I'm not a big fan of trying to be a sex symbol or any of that stuff because I really like the music to speak for itself.

I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'

Of course I'm going to be labeled as a sex symbol. I made my bed, and I'm sleeping in it.

I can't be described as a sex symbol; I think it's ridiculous.

If one wanted to find a modern symbol of personal freedom, the motor car is right there near the top of the list. But a car has come to mean much more than that. It has become a powerful statement about who you are and how much you earn.

Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their preferred disguise.

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

I thought I was a sexy symbol!

I'd hate to be a sex symbol. Because you're always having to live up to an image. I haven't got time to sit around doing my nails.

I'm not a Republican, but I was one once - when I was 7 years old. Not my fault. The symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant, I'm a Hindu - I was confused.

The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

Al-Aksa is a religious and national symbol.

The burden of being a constant symbol, of having to live up to a symbol of advancement, of progress, of being perfect in some way and always representing the destiny of an entire people - that is supposed to be invincibility. That's enormous.

On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.

I am not a sex symbol of the Broadway community. I know guys who are, and I say, 'Rock it out.' But I'm more comfortable in a different land. I don't know what land it is, but not that one.

It's crazy that people are looking to me as a symbol like, 'Oh, he's the voice of the youth. He's this and this and that.' I feel like there's a lot of pressure that comes with it, when people look to you as the face of something.

To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions veer from those who despise it as a symbol of backwardness to those for whom religion begins and ends with that piece of cloth.

I didn't want to be a sex symbol. That was perhaps my mistake, but you can't really change who you are.

Prateik means symbol so I symbolise certain things in my life.