Robin Wright Quotes

I think people always thought I was more of a Guido than I am.

I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

I'm not the Asian kid of 'Riverdale;' I'm Reggie, and I just happen to be Chinese.

I am not what a girl dreams of.

Everyone wouldn't just accept that I wanted to be a fighter - because I wasn't someone that they envisioned could or would be a fighter.

I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay is the last adjective I would use to describe myself. The idea of being gay, like a little sparkler, never occurs to me. So if you ask me if I'm gay, I say no.

If I'm in a gathering of filmmakers, I'm first and foremost a British Indian; if I'm in a gathering of British Indians, I'm a woman director. There are so many sides to who I am that I change all the time.

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.

I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought that my whole life, just coming from where I'm coming from.

Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

I wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to?

I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.