Quotes About Identity

I'm the only person in the entire world who has never see 'Dawson's Creek.'

A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.

I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.

My grandmother is from Martinique, so sometimes I'm ashamed that I don't speak Creole.

I'm nothing without a band. I always feel like I'm part of the road crew until I'm on stage.

My dad thought my head looked like a basketball, so he set one inside my crib.

Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things.

West Indian cricket means so much to people who live here. And when we're not doing well, we all feel it.

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

It is certainly not how I've been brought up and it's not in my blood to play cricket in that safety-first way.

You think of what might have been different if dad had been around, or how I might have turned out as a person. You just don't know. I might not even be playing cricket.

Once, four friends and I cut all our hair off, like boys. A couple of them cried afterwards, but I thought we looked really good.

The thought of being a boy makes me cringe. I just couldn't do it.

I cringe when I watch myself on camera. I'm not articulate, and I'm dyslexic, but somehow it works.

Not all cultural borrowing is a form of social violence: some of it is just cringe.

There is too much acceptance of people saying, 'I am a math person, or I am an artsy person.' It makes me cringe.

I think we all have identity crises throughout our lives.

I don't know any 21-year-old who's not having an existential crisis.

I'm not a crisis actor.

I always felt like if I lived in true authentic self-expression and lived in service and in support of many other people, I would be exempt from having to deal with yet another crisis in my life. I was wrong.

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.

You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.