Bella Heathcote Quotes

As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.

I was always called Payne or Payno.

My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.

When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.

I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.'

People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

Different people call me different things. In America, people really struggle with my name, so I don't have a nickname as such. I've had Sharlito, Sheldon, Charldo, really interesting variations on the name.

I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.

Now if anyone calls me Anthony, I usually don't respond.

No one calls me Belcalis except for my family, my mother, and my daddy.

I have a strange situation as far as my name is concerned, because of course, what should my name really be? Is it my traditional Jewish name? Or this curious name my parents put together, partially to honor departed family members, and partially to keep me away from the absolute craziness of my grandparents' fame and the intrusiveness of their fans? So many people call me "MTT," and some do say, "Oh Maestro," and some are comfortable calling me Michael.

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.

My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.

When I was at college, my nickname was Keds, because I wore Keds. I guess it wasn't really a nickname, because nicknames are usually given to you by people who are your friends and who know you.

I have to work hard to not look like a nerd all the time. My friends are the only people I know that don't care about my image. I need to have people who treat me just as Josh, not as Josh the singer.

Australia's not so bad with me, really, people are pretty cool with me at home, but in England it feels a little bit scary.

I've been in America for almost ten years. I've had many parts of the American experience. I've been all over this country and seen many different parts of it. It's just that I'm not an American. I've never become an American. I'm talking about the whole thing-psychologically, citizenship, the whole trip. Of course I've definitely been influenced by America-I'm definitely influenced by the music and the culture.

When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have to deal with your own emotional response to what's going on, but you take on everybody else's emotional response.

When Andrew [Ridgeley] first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck. I hated it is a teenager. It was not the most glamorous-sounding name in the world.