Sasha Grey Quotes

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.

I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal girl!

If my dancing is a disaster - it doesn't define me as a person.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

You are what you love. Not what loves you.

I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job.

Maybe some people look at me and just see a footballer, or a black footballer. But I am much more than this. I tell my best friends all the time, 'If you look at me as a footballer, and not as Little Kouli, and not as your friend, then I have failed in life.'

You choose who you want to be.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.

I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.

People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.

My mama told me it's not what they call you - it's what you answer to.

If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.

I don't think anybody deserves to be defined totally by his enemies.

I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.

My success is not who I am.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

No one can figure out your worth but you.