Quotes about Identity
Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.
— Kirsten Dunst
On 'Think Like a Man,' they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.
— Kevin Hart
There's not a whole bunch of options in America for a black man. But sports gives you that opportunity... So where would my life be without football? I don't know.
— Cris Carter
Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.
— Jennifer Aniston
It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture.
— India Arie
Of course I want to look nice and have a good appearance, but more than the outer shell, I want people to want to be around me for my heart.
— Tim Tebow
There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.
— Lawrence Wright
I like to feel blonde all over.
— Marilyn Monroe
Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.
— Dan Quayle
I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.
— Donald Miller
Women should never be ashamed to be feminine. Strength comes from conviction, not from acting like a man. Being feminine doesn't mean you're weak, it just means you're proud to be a woman.
— Steven James
Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
— Steven Pressfield