Quotes About Identity

For some people of color, for some people with conservative or religious backgrounds, you know, we're constantly sort of looking over our shoulder.

I find that, often, when I tell people what pronoun I use, I don't get a lot of backlash. I'm really lucky in that respect.

I'll always be a Backstreet Boy.

I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.

I'm not a bad guy. People who know me know who I am.

I appreciate being known as 'best character' rather than as the 'best bad guy.'

I did not want people to know that I was a Muslim; I did not want people to know my name or that I did not have an American name. I did not want that. Because I knew if they knew that, they would cast me as the bad guy.

Well, in the '80s and '70s, with the exception of Sidney Poitier and Brock Peters, maybe Ivan Dixon, if you were as big and black as I am, you were a bad guy. Simple. Because in real life, I scare people.

If you take the chance to get to know me off the court, you'll see that I'm not the bad guy that everybody wants me to be on the court.

I was the bad guy, the NBA bad guy.

It's amazing to me - what is this love affair we have with bad guys? With the bad boy in high school, with the anti-hero, et cetera, et cetera? Because I was always just a very nice boy. I didn't get it.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

My name don't ever come up unless it's light, a joke, laughs behind it. I'm not saying it's all the way a bad thing, but it's not great.

I would love to be an example to young LGBTQ kids everywhere. I remember growing up and feeling like nobody in the media accurately represented me, and when they did, it was always made to seem like a bad thing.

I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.

As a black manager, somebody talking in good terms about me I don't think can be a bad thing.

Trixie Mattel is a product of bad things that happened to me, and it's how I deal with things. It's wonderful.

I didn't have the clothes that a kid with a famous, rich dad would have. I didn't have the house. I didn't have the mannerisms. I didn't have the sense of entitlement. And I don't mean that in a bad way: I just - we didn't have the stuff.

Look, I know what it feels like to believe you're 'different' in a bad way.

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

Sometimes, if I felt badly about myself, I could slyly pull out that I have this famous father.

I said to my wife, did you ever dream that one day you'd be married to a man who's got his face on a bag of crisps?

The baggage of celebrity can be very heavy.