Identity Quotes

"I'm a classic English liberal. A classical liberal, which is different to the modern interpretation of liberal in America."

"Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam."

"Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic."

"I'm relatively patriotic."

"That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me."

"Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress."

"I must stick with Chinese language films."

"I am very different in real life as compared to whatever people have seen of me on the big screen."

"I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one."

"I do consider myself an artist."

"If you cut me open I bleed East London."

“I am not a psychic medium. I am a sensitive.”

“I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.”

“Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.”

“I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.”

“We're not a Screamo band.”

"The way we spend our time defines who we are."

Jonathan Estrin

"Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river."

Jorge Luis Borges

"I am a part of all that I have met."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

James Baldwin

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

Simone de Beauvoir

"A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?'"

Betty Friedan

"I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot.' I want to be thought of as the 'girl who stood up.'"

Malala Yousafzai

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

Toni Morrison

"The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are."

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie