Quotes About Identity

One criticism that I hear occassionally is that I am actually not a real liberal, and I am secretly a conservative. Or sometimes they will say I am the only thing worse than a conservative - a dreaded 'right-winger.'

I am criticized for getting jobs because of my name, but I only use it when I have to.

I've been told that I overshare. Sometimes I get criticized for it, but how else would I be if not all of me?

The best critics of America are Americans.

I certainly don't stay out of the sun, and I also don't, as some of my critics have said, put on blackface as a performance.

Of course it is very important for me to play for Croatia, however different it is to play at club level.

I was German-speaking, and I arrived 10 years old to Croatia, and really wasn't speaking a lot at home with my parents in Croatian, so it was really difficult to write in Croatian. It took me two years after I went back to learn everything again in Croatian.

'Crocodile Dundee' is about people; it's 10 seconds about crocodiles.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

We, as black people, we have a lot of crooks.

When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.

The money is obviously life-changing in lots of ways. But I'll always be the same Rob Cross.

I'm like a cross between Bettie Page and Lady Miss Kier but a guy.

It had never crossed my mind that a man could think he had the right to stop me from being who I was.

Malorie Blackman's 'Noughts & Crosses' was my favourite as a kid - it was the first time I'd heard of interracial courtship outside of my family.

Good rap records don't get too far, but rap records that are made for crossing over to white audiences do go a long way.

I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.

I definitely think L.A. would be a very difficult city to move to and try to make it in. There's a lot of people down there, and it's tough to stand out in the crowd.

I mean, I definitely relate to not being a part of the popular crowd.

That anonymity that comes with talking in front of a crowd of people you've never met allows you to reveal anything, because you don't really have to associate with any one of them.

The crown is always with me, so I keep it close.

I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.

People were so cruel because of the way I existed.