Sloane Crosley Quotes

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

I never felt like an Amanda.

I don't see myself as exotic.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

I believe a person's style is an expression of who you are - way more than dancing.

I don't think I'm boring.

People think I'm a freak or something, but I'm actually a really normal guy.

I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

I don't use a hat as a prop. I use it as a part of me.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.