Quotes About Identity

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents.

I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope and she's marvellous.

I look 13, so was always being asked to play the crying girl.

I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.

I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back!

When I was growing up, I wanted to see girls like me on television and in movies - strong girls who aren't crying over their relationships or whatever.

I'd like to go to Cuba.

For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people.

I knew that if they didn't allow me to play anymore, I would leave Cuba immediately. I mean, what was I supposed to do? Baseball is the only thing I know.

I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.

I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.

I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.

I am half Cuban American.

When it came to religion, I felt I belonged to no one. It saddened me, it angered me, it confused me, and it made me religiously ambivalent. So I chose my calling: Cubs baseball.

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

'Company' has become a cult film. When people see me at the airport, and when I travel, they call me 'Companywala.'

I think the Republican Party has become something of a personality cult.

I'd like to see drag really cultivate its political roots.

I decided a long time ago to be myself and not worry too much about cultivating some kind of personality that didn't feel natural or true to who I am.

I'm not a big fan of just cultivating an image.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.