Quotes About Identity

It's like everybody try to sound the same exact way because they think it's going to get them some fame, but nah. You've got to be different.

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

I think it's cool to be different. That's what cool is.

The kids say, 'Oh are we weird somehow?' and I say, 'It's OK to be different.'

I was told I'd never work again, but once you come out, it's like someone turns on the lights, and your life will be different.

It's like you're waiting on the world to change, but I'm actually living it, because I wonder: If there was a DragCon when I was a child or even a search engine or 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' maybe my father would have been different. Maybe our relationship now wouldn't be different.

Our culture of the Bay Area is a place where you want to be different. You want to be seen. You want to be heard.

You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.

Be happy in your own skin.

The only way you can be happy is if you be completely yourself. You have to be you. Don't be what you think you should be.

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.'

I would be happy if people just called me an actor.

My mom was a little weepy. My dad was very logical about it. Once they realized you can't change, they wanted to know that you can be happy and be gay. Once they realized that, they were very cool about it.

There are a lot of guys who football is all they have. And I love football to death, it got me here, it's what I've been doing since I was nine years old, but football ends at a point in time and you've got to be prepared for life after football.

I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

Whatever your walk of life is, I think you have to be real about it.

It's just so humanizing to see someone be real.

I just want to be real and who I am. That's something I'd feel comfortable with any little girl looking up to, so that's who I try to be.

As long as you're you, be you, do you. But be real.

You've to be real, and think about yourself rather than others.

I just look to be myself. I'm not trying to be nobody. I'm just trying to be the first Zion.

I am not a small guy - I will be the first to say it.

I am not trying to be the next anyone - I am going to be the first Dolph Ziggler!