Quotes About Identity

We don't have 'posh' in Canada. It's just not a thing that exists.

I worry I look posh and fat. I can't do anything about posh - I'm accentless - but I've spent 20 years battling my weight.

If I keep doing films like 'The Riot Club' they're going to think I'm a posh git.

People put me in this ditzy, posh and stuck-up category, so it's been nice the public have been able to see the real me.

I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

I was always told at school I was posh, then I came to London, and here I'm told I have a country accent.

I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.

People assume I'm posh because I'm one of the acting dames. I grew up in Tottenham and didn't used to speak like I do now.

I do speak well as I went to a posh school. But I come from no real breeding.

I do want people to think of me as an actor, not just a posh actor who does posh parts.

I think I have got quite a posh Scottish accent. It's funny because I grew up in Oxgangs and Fife.

I get told I have a 'period' face quite often. Maybe it's the pale skin but I get a lot of pre-Forties posh roles.

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

They're not posing as being Jesus Christ all the time.

I never want to be randomly posing with a product or putting my name to a brand arbitrarily.

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.

Awkwardness is the consciousness of a false position.

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

I am used to being politically homeless, which I think is a very, very Jewish position.

There is this feeling among black artists that you have to be really careful. We're not inclined to talk about this stuff because, if we do, we put ourselves in a position where we're not marketable or where we can't win.

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.

Much of how Americans have always understood their history, culture, and identity depends on positioning Europe as the 'other,' as that 'old world' against which they define themselves.

I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.