Quotes About Identity

If you ask me where do I belong, it would be somewhere in the Irish Sea almost - born in Hong Kong, Chinese mother, Portuguese father from Macao, lived in Europe most of my life.

We, Portuguese, make this country very big.

Portuguese is the language of my heart; it's the language of my feelings. It's the language that I feel I can express myself best in.

Growing up biracial and speaking four languages - French, Chinese, Portuguese, and English - gave me a different lens. I was always very acutely aware of coming from a different perspective. I think that definitely contributed to what I chose to do with my life.

I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal and they're not Portuguese.

We might think we don't, but everyone descends from native Brazilians. When Portuguese arrived here, everyone was native Brazilians, so I have that in my blood.

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

For a long time, with a lot of women of the trans experience on television, people have only got to see one aspect of their life. With 'Pose,' it's broadened the scale.

If I had seen 'Pose' in the years I was a kid, it would have probably meant everything to me.

I have a file - my character box - anything from magazines - a pose, a face - I go through these files and arrange a whole person out of them. Because I think what you wear, it says something. It's not necessarily you, but what you want to project.

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?'

What's important to me is love, especially that. What's important to me is growing and evolving. But ultimately, what's important to me is being real and being authentic. I've spent enough time in my life holding poses, playing roles.

I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.

I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.

When people accuse me of being really posh, I think, 'Hang on a minute - no, I'm not!'

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

Nobody knows it, but I would be considered posh in Ireland.

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.

I am not posh. I went to a comprehensive school.