John Lithgow Quotes

And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

'Entropy' will be a kaleidoscope of thought processes and my identity as an Indian who grew up in California.

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.

When I was little, I thought that everyone wanted to hold me as a baby because I was this thing of fascination. But rather than this thing that wasn't quite right, I just felt that my difference was something that was probably very exotic.

I believe that everyone has to construct a mental model of what they are and where they came from and why they are as they are, and the word soul in each person is the name for that particular mish-mash of those fully formed ideas of one's nature.

My mama is African American and from Wisconsin. My baba was born in Iran. My parents have stressed the idea of creating your own path, and creating your own identity is part of that. That's why embracing these two cultures is important to me.

I think everyone self-mythologizes.

I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

Deep down inside, I'm really a black girl stuck in a Mexican girl's body. But I'm also in touch with my inner white girl and my inner Asian girl. I feel like a little bit of everybody.

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

I have a very healthy dose of scepticism towards what identity is and what personas are, maybe because of my life journey. Identity is something so malleable.

I can be a mix of both. I don't have to be an Indian or an American. They're not mutually exclusive. It's something growing up I didn't know.

I ended up very American and very Indonesian and a little bit of a lot of things.

There are several different traits that make up a person's identity. For me, being Vietnamese American is the entirety of who I am.

My name is Jennifer, and when I first went to school, my kindergarten teacher called me Jenny, and from then on, I was Jenny.

I notice I have both African and Belgian characteristics.

I'm not more Brazilian than I am American or vice-versa - I'm very much a combination of all of those things.

I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.

Frankly, the British always looked at this as a dumpy industrial area, but this was where Shakespeare lived and wrote and performed some of his greatest works.

Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.

I grew up very American but also fully Asian.

My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.