Quotes About Identity

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

I have this saying: They either want The Bean or they don't want The Bean. I just am my own thing. It works or it doesn't work.

I have gotten a couple of letters meant for Mr. Bean aka Rowan Atkinson. These letters would say things like, 'You're so funny, you make me laugh, with your big rubbery face,' and I would say, 'You can't mean me!'

It just became too much to bear... the pressure of trying to fit into a world that perhaps wasn't really set up for people like myself.

I'll always be a Chicago Bear no matter where I end up or where I retire, whatever happens.

I can't bear the idea or concept of being a 'celeb.'

I can't bear the idea that I might be in any way deluded about myself.

I don't think I'll ever be able to grow a beard.

I joke that the beard does 40 percent of the job.

I'm not that powerful to take out the masculinity of a beard.

I love my beard.

If I can play, and change the mind of one person about being a Muslim player and having a beard, then I'll feel as if I've done my job.

Obviously, I can't get away from having a disability, but sometimes when you have a beard and long hair, people can't figure it out.

Beast. That's what everybody says about me.

When you name a beast, sometimes it makes it less bestial.

I stay in Chennai but my heart is beating for Kannada films.

Growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I felt with The Beatles legacy that there was pressure on me to do music, and while I always loved music and it was always around me at home, I thought about doing other things.

For us... you know, we're not The Beatles.

When we did Beats, we had to begin again. Nobody at Best Buy knew who we were.

I am proud to have played so many non-urban characters because I feel the heart of real India beats in the non-urban areas.

It is beautiful to be what you are.

Black women, dark skin women are the original beautiful people to me.

If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.