Quotes About Identity

I look like my mother but behave like my father.

What was weird, as a 12-year-old actor, was being expected to behave like an adult while still being treated as a kid everywhere else.

Don't forget I'm not English. English people maybe don't behave like we Europeans do.

The way I dress definitely helps me embody and actually change my way of behaving and feel more confident.

If we don't know who is who because everyone is behaving the same then it's boring. We don't think it's boring because we love tennis. But bring someone who doesn't love tennis and they will think it's incredibly boring.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

I enjoy being a girl.

Sometimes, being a girl away from home - it gets to you.

I like being a boy, but I also really like being a girl.

It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man.

I want to get my degree and that's something I take pride in, especially being a man of color.

Being different makes you beautiful.

The tax on being different is massive.

When you have a lot of gay friends, you don't think of that as being different or divisive or weird; that's just your reality.

I'm a big star in Asia, but I never think about being famous.

It's hard to say I don't like being famous, but how I feel is that I don't see myself as that person. It baffles me that people would want a picture with me.

To me, I can be famous in sports. But to me, I cannot say it means a lot to be famous. Being famous is something I don't like.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.

There's nothing wrong with being honest about what you are.

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.

I agree that I am different from others. I am not trying to fit in someone else's shoes. I am being honest to myself.

I hate being human.