Quotes about Identity

I am a citizen of the world, or no world at all!

Homosexuality is not about love, it's not about family, and it's not about civil rights.

When I've been asked in the past about my dream role, I always expressed how much I'd like to be a superhero.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.

It's like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it's solid so it's something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

I thought going in that I had to have this very broad, very palatable sensibility that works for everybody, but then the stuff that I'm the most proud of, and probably even got the most success from, was outwardly an expression of queerness or gayness. That's been a nice surprise.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.

You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.

Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.

The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.