Explore Quotes on Identity

In my early 20s, I set out to kind of find myself. At that time, if you were different or if you ever questioned your gender identity or sexual orientation, society kind of put you in the gay club.

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

To find a clear identity for the team - that is not about buying certain players for a lot of money. It is about getting players who want to play the right way.

I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.

Fifth Harmony is an entity or identity outside all of us, and I don't think anybody felt individually represented by the sound - we didn't make it.

I spent a lot of my childhood moving around, so I was constantly adjusting to different environments and finding a new identity.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

When we create the right kind of identity, we can say things to the world around us that they don't actually believe makes sense. We can get them to do things that they don't think they can do.

In terms of identity, I'm the same person no matter what I'm doing.

If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

I have a lot of respect for all the artists I get compared to, even if, as an artist, you prefer to have your own identity.

I guess it's because I do have a younger audience that, you know, parents worry about the role model thing. But when I was younger, I looked up to people, but I never wanted to be them. I always had my own identity. I'm an entertainer when I'm on stage, and they need to explain that to their kids. That's not my job to do that.

I felt this during the first few months of my motherhood. You lose who you are - you lose your identity - because when your baby comes, you give, give, give, and no one gives back, and you just wonder, 'Who am I?' 'What am I?' 'How do I live life now?' It's all for this baby.

When I got to high school and college, I was more involved in athletics then I was in acting. At that time, I was trying to figure out what my identity was and roles became more gendered, it was a little bit more challenging for me to stay with the acting.

After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.

Initially, I resisted going into acting. You want to have your own identity, and I thought about doing other things, but that didn't last very long.

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.