Yann Martel Quotes

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.

I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. It's so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.

Before college, I was Cyndi, and then I think I went to college and I was like, 'You know what? Now I'm Cynthia.'

People used to name me the Brazilian Pistorius. Thank God I'm not the Brazilian Pistorius any more. I'm Alan.

Life changed a lot after marriage. I am not the same person as before.

I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me.

Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

Every woman who has been pregnant knows that it messes with your mind a little bit. You are suddenly someone else: you are a mother who is now responsible for another human being. That's awesome, but it changes who you are.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.

Those are the stakes that are constantly there and how do those stakes change you? How does that change the person you are? If it does just turn out to be about survival then is that living? How does that make you, you? How does that change your identity? That picture of the governor, his wife, and his daughter, he wasn't that guy before this all started. People dying around him changed him into that.

I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.

When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

I started out as Snow White, but then I drifted.

I don't think I have changed my personality as much as I have evolved as a human. Before the name change, I was very timid, very self-conscious. Just not very confident. When I changed my name, it came from a place of power.

I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.

Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.

The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people.

Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.

It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda.