Quotes About Identity

I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.

I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

I had been typed in a particular kind of roles. It becomes boring and I feel great to have come out of sexy' tag.

Money has never been my drive. I have never seen the shortage of money in my life, so for me, I don't want to buy a silk pillow or a private jet... My drive is to achieve more than what my grandfather achieved; my drive is to make a name for myself, get rid of this 'star son' tag that has been attached to me.

The It-girl tag annoys me.

With or without the idol tag, I believe I will be recognized for what I have done.

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision.

I think, forever, I was trying to figure out maybe... what I am. But I don't think anyone should feel pressured to have any kind of label or tag on them. We should treat everybody the same... Me, I don't like to be put down to a specific thing. We're all human beings.

I am not comfortable at all with this tag of being dubbed 'the richest Indian' and all the attention that follows for the reason.

People are asking us, 'Why have you gone country?' And we say, 'Man, we were born country.' They gave us the tag 'Southern rock' years ago as a way of not saying country.

You can't tag me as a regional actress.

I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.

Beauty and fashion are a form of expression and it doesn't have to come with a price tag. It depends on what suits each person.

There is only one Rakhi Sawant in India and there can never be another Rakhi Sawant. No one can steal my tag.

I have a problem with the star tag itself. I believe I am an actor.

If I see someone with a gamer tag saying they're fans of the Bulls or the Heat I will trash-talk them and make it known I don't like them, but I don't let them know who I am. If I do, I have to change my gamer tag pretty fast.

I'm very serious about my career. If someone feels that I carry a serious heroine tag, so be it.

What I wanted to make sure of is that I wasn't just tagged as a Viner.

I didn't know we'd been tagged as posh. I went to a state school in London, so maybe people think I have a posh voice and that's where it comes from?

You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

I was on Instagram or something, and I checked my tagged photos, and I realized that suddenly they were all LGBT artwork. I was like, 'Oh, my God!' I had no idea. It was the first time I realized I was a figure for that community.