Quotes About Identity

I think the term 'hero' comes with a lot of baggage.

I was really sensitive because people would say they thought I was a boy or call me a boy and stuff like that. I always had my hair back and, like I said, baggy clothes. So it was kind of sad. I didn't know what to do about it, and I didn't know what I was doing wrong because I was just being me.

I was always the sniffly kid with bags under my eyes.

I love beautiful clothes, shoes, and bags like everyone else. However, I do not put a lot of emphasis on who I wear and how much my clothes cost. If it's a label, it's a label. If it's not, it's not.

Give more acting roles to 48-year-old half-Lithuanians who just don't want to be pigeon-holed as bakery presenters.

See, I was fine being bald, because I have a good-shaped head.

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

I'm not built to have a bald head. I've got a huge sniffer.

My whole career, I was pretty much bald. So, people just got to know me as being a bald guy.

You know, I've been bald since I was 18. I started losing my hair at 17 and I've been completely bald since 20 years old.

I do sing ballads, but I'm not a balladeer. I'm not the next Celine Dion.

The force for change I represent is of course from being a mixed-race ballerina.

As a child, I had been told that I was exactly what a ballerina should be.

I've been wearing makeup for as long as I can remember. I started by playing with my mom's lipsticks, then in ballet I would apply my own stage makeup.

The only family I knew was the Royal Ballet and I didn't feel I was part of it in a way. I moved up quite quickly so I didn't make many friends. You are on your own in that sort of place.

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.

There's so much you can say about the ballroom scene. But, simply, it's just a way of life. It's a place you can live out a fantasy you never lived before.

Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.

I'm from Baltimore.

I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am.

I grew up in Baltimore.

There's no place like Baltimore.