Quotes About Identity

I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

I think it's very hard to shake what people first think of you straightaway.

When you grow up with constantly being told or made to feel that you are less than, then it's very difficult to grow into an adult and to shake that off.

If you grow up poor, I'm not sure you ever shake that off.

I don't think I've ever gone home and not been able to shake it off. I like having my own life too much!

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

When you're working class and you feel like you're a bit of a toerag, you think Shakespeare's not for you, you know?

People either say 'I am famous for playing football' or some might say 'I am famous for not shaking someone's hand' but I would like people to get to know me for who I am.

Some people think Hollywood is shallow. I find that it's home.

People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.

Shame is something that's man-made.

Our literature is in great shape.

I have my dad's shape. No booty.

My head is weirdly shaped, so I can't wear a headband.

I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up.

I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.

I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life out of England. Of course, I will never know, but I think I prefer what did happen.

I didn't choose to come to the United States, but being raised here has shaped exactly who I am today, and I can't imagine that being taken away from me.

Seattle has shaped me in a lot of ways.

I read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' when I was 15. It's one of the things that's shaped my relationship to fame - to endorsements, to selling things.

Scotland was home to me from when I was 12 up until I was 22. I decided to drop my English bit, and when anyone asked where I came from, I always said Scotland. It really shaped the fibres of my being.

My childhood shaped the person I became. It was artistic, musical and left-wing.

My values are in my DNA and were shaped by my environment.

Everything about who I am, negative and positive, is what shaped me.