Quotes About Identity

The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

The only way for something human to feel human is to convince others that it is.

For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.

When I started this business, my job was to sell people on my brand and convince them to embrace it in a way that made sense to them.

My father was convinced that America was the greatest place in the world. I'm afraid I didn't have the family I would have dreamed of.

As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy.

Over time, with my matches, I convinced both the fans and the coaches that my style was the best for me, and they understood who I am, and that is who I am today.

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not convincing as an American.

Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.

I don't know how convincing I'd be as a soul cat. I'm a scrawny British kid.

I feel more comfortable in men's clothing, and I'm a lot of more convincing as a boy than as a gendered female. But with women's clothing, I feel more empowered.

I'm not a cook. I don't think I ever will be.

I don't live my life as a writer. I'm a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does - cook and a little bit of cleaning.

I cook every day. If I don't cook, they don't eat. Who's going to do it? I'm their mother!

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn't good at anything else - not that I was good at it, but it was considered honest work.

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.

I'm happy that just about on every other show there's a Latino somewhere present, and we're not all the cooks anymore.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

I don't believe you can buy or sell 'cool.'

Being the new guy, you're gonna dress your best every day. When you're the cool guy, you gonna be like, 'Ah, I'm the cool guy anyway. I don't need to dress like that.'

Everybody likes the new guy. Being the new guy is cool. But then when you're there for a couple months, you're just the cool guy. I think I'm just the cool guy.