Quotes About Identity

You can pick and choose how to portray yourself.

People often portray me as Miss Hard Stuff. It hurts my feelings a lot.

People do things on Instagram and put on a front and try to live a life that they may not really want to live, or don't truly believe in. And that's the life that they portray. That's not the real them. We all have to be more aware of what is that's really happening inside. Are we really standing for what we believe in?

I never looked at it like I'm one of the most respected, but I always tried to stay to who I was. The way that I am in my music is the way that I am. I'm just not tryna portray nobody but Brad, period!

One doesn't necessarily have to be grey-haired to portray a mother.

While I don't know who will eventually be selected, I think Kangana Ranaut can portray me perfectly on screen, I like her as an actress.

Wrestling doesn't know what it is. I feel that wrestling has an identity crisis and what I mean by that is, we're almost meant to portray these characters 24 hours a day, but that's kind of a ridiculous, stupid thing.

My dad is Arab. I'm not Muslim, but half of family is, so I see a lot of injustice happening in the portrayal of Muslims that they don't have any heroes.

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

People perceive actresses in a different manner when they are portrayed glamorously. I don't want that to happen with me.

I am not the 'Count' that has been portrayed in the media.

We have built our identities in many respects based on the guilt-ridden stories we have been told about our creation. For women, it is a very damning knowledge to be portrayed as curious and careless seductresses.

Growing up, it was hard to associate with some of the women who were being portrayed in the media.

When I portrayed Shiridi Sai, I changed as a person.

I don't know that I'm as conservative as portrayed.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media.

Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.

You are what you're portrayed as.