Claes Bang Quotes

I never used my surname. My full name is Atishi Marlena Singh.

My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

I wanted to change my name when I first started because I thought, 'No-one is going to believe that it is my name.'

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

Know your personal style.

You can write 'little beast' if you want, but my name is David Ferrer.

I don't think I have a signature.

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.

I was going to change my name to Sophie Windsor, but then I decided not to. I prefer to go into the room just as Sophie Winkleman.

I don't want my kids to have to walk through a world where they have to constantly explain who they are and who their family is.

Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.

Funny how defined we are by how we present ourselves to the world.

Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

That's my ultimate goal: to get people to say my name right.

I was born Chinese, and I write in Chinese. I don't think there's any need to evade this... to a writer, as to a person, what matters is not his political label or his nationality, but whether he is a person and whether his work is worth looking at.

If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.

It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

I'm American; I was born and raised in America, and I don't want to fake who I am to fit a stereotype.

Everyone is so into labeling themselves. I don't really put too much into that.

I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those things, so it is frustrating, to a degree, to be limited by other people's perceptions of me, but at the same time, it is true that I am a black guy, and, you know, it's like I'm rooted in but not bound by.

I've got the fighting Irish, and Puerto Ricans are some of the best fighters in the world. I'm proud of who I am, but it doesn't define me as a person.