Quotes about Identity

Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I've been vulnerable. I've always given parts of me, parts of my life - good, bad, ugly. I've never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.

The concept of even having fans is still kind of weird to me. I really just feel like a filmmaker that is only just finding my foot in and is beginning to participate in Hollywood and making films. So the idea of any kind of fandom or people that are waiting for something that I may release is very distant in my mind.

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'

If I walk outside without lipstick, I feel naked.

I'm a decent-looking guy, but I've never walked into a room and got a girl because of how I looked. Look, I'm never excluded because of my looks. I just don't stand out.

I walked into this industry blond with red lips, and I will leave this industry blond with red lips. Mark my words.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

A big thing in the LGBTQ community is finding family because some of us have loving families and some of us really don't, so we have to go out there and make our own families.

The issue of race is not an issue of choice. It's an issue of birth.

I want people to realize that they aren't their bodies. They are something more than their bodies.