Quotes about Identity

The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

I haven't had my teeth fixed, I haven't had a hair transplant. I haven't had a skin peel, tummy tuck. I've done literally nothing.

I think any teenager, any single parent household teenager growing up in New York City, will probably go through tumultuous years. I definitely did. It all sort of righted itself once I definitively got on the path of being a musician or, like, following that directly.

All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not this kind of person. I cry if I cut myself peeling potatoes. I am taking the plane, there is turbulence, I am shaking. In performance, I become, somehow, like not a mortal.

My mother was a terrible narcissist and I could well have turned out like her.

'Mr. India' was a turning point. Before that, Hindi moviegoers saw me just as a glamour girl. After 'Mr. India,' they felt I could act.