Quotes About Identity

Jesus was born a Jew, and he died a Jew. It never occurred to him to establish a new religion. He never crossed himself: he had no reason to. He never set one foot in a church. He went to synagogue.

My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

I'm Reconstructionist; I don't serve the Sabbath, but I go to synagogue.

We joined a Conservative synagogue. I began learning through engagement, rote and reading. Suddenly, I belonged... well, to the extent that a novelist can ever feel she is part of a group; we may be part of a minyan, but we're not fully merged into the community.

I know crowds of people who go to church and the synagogue who aren't religious.

I was brought up a Jew but, you know, that way of being Jewish - the New York way. We were stomach Jews; we were Jewish-joke Jews. We were bagel Jews. We didn't go to synagogue. I'm frightened of synagogue to this day.

The majority of Jews are secular... the Nazis never checked if anyone was going to the synagogue or eating kosher.

I get recognized more for my 'Lip Sync Battle' than I do for being Spider-Man.

There's drag queens who lip sync brilliantly. There's drag queens who sing live brilliantly - none of those are me.

I have Tourettes syndrome.

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy.

I'm someone who's experienced impostor syndrome - as I think a lot of people have with their careers, especially when they pursue what they're passionate about, because they want to be good at it. I've experienced that as a gay man; I've experienced that as a cook, as a gallery director, as a student of psychology.

The more Arsenal games I see, the more it chips away at my impostor syndrome, a common plague among Arsenal fans with non-U.K. origins.

As I got older, I knew my syndrome wasn't going away. It was a hard pill to swallow. I wanted to look like everyone else and blend in, and I couldn't find a way to make that happen. I couldn't blame the doctors or my parents, so I blamed myself.

I still deal with impostor syndrome. It's a very real thing.

My mother is a hardcore actor's actor. She's not a celebrity. She really isn't... And so her main concern was that I not fall into the auditioning-is-my-life syndrome.

I was born with Kallmann syndrome. I have never complained about it, as I can't do anything to change it - and I wouldn't have acquired the voice that I have.

People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.

Impostor syndrome, or feeling like a fraud at work, at home, or anywhere else in your life, will probably affect you at some point.

I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.

I like to remain somewhat anonymous. I could never handle the whole Britney Spears syndrome of being noticed everywhere.

How long have we got to talk about women of colour and imposter syndrome. It's a real thing, and many people have it. It's, I think, a particular characteristic of the overachiever. Because you're bottomless, you never think what you've achieved is enough.

I had a couple of moments struggling with imposter syndrome throughout my career as a player.