Quotes About Identity

It's okay, it's cool to be Indian and there are cool people that are Indian and doing really well. It's okay to be brown and cool.

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

It's a cool thing to see Polynesians - there's not too many of us, period - but especially doing well in American sports. It's pretty cool.

The cool thing about being in drag, just like getting to play a role in a play, is that you get to play a fantasy and you get to play someone else that you're not used to.

I think it's a cool thing to have kids look up to me and to know that it doesn't matter, your background or your ethnic background. If you have goals and dreams, you can achieve them. I am extremely proud to be Tongan and Samoan, and to be the first on Tour and the first in the Masters is a cool thing.

I always wanted to be Romeo, not Juliet. Romeo is a much cooler way to be - Juliet's just up in a balcony, waiting.

It is based off the pentatonic scale, which is a five-note scale in music. And there are five of us. We were going to be The Pentatonix, but we dropped the 'The' and added an 'x' to try and be cooler.

Playing for a team you grew up rooting for, there's nothing cooler than that.

People always meet me and go, 'You're so much cooler than I thought you'd be,' and I'm like, 'What did you expect me to be like?'

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.

I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.

I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world.

I wanted to give myself the opportunity to do the coolest drag I could possibly do.

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.

I love how much people are drawn to my 'impersonations' of Trump because they aren't really impersonations at all. I'm not trying to be Trump so much as I'm trying to make Trump me. In doing them, I simply ask myself, 'How would I, Sarah Cooper, say these words?'

Sarah Cooper sounds like a character on 'The O.C.,' who was written out in season two, and it's like she moved into my body and gentrified my whole personality.

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.

I am not a cop. Really. I've just been playing one on television so long that people get a little confused sometimes.

If you don't cop the ZO2s, you're not a baller.

I want to be strong enough to cope with the roles, but I don't want to be cast as the guy that takes his shirt off.

I come from a poor community, and I still go back there whenever I can, and I think that makes it easier to cope with fame and being on TV.

When you've grown up always knowing that there's something that seemed to be different about you from most people - and not being able to understand until my mid-forties that what we were talking about here was autism - I've had to learn an awful let about myself and what I can and can't do and what I can or can't cope with.

I don't think I could cope with being David Schwimmer-ly famous.

Me just putting on whatever I want to wear today, people find confidence in that. But to me, I'm just coping.