Jimmy Iovine Quotes

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

From my situation as an African American person in the U.S., people may look at me and think a certain thing without getting to know me. I'm of Nigerian and Caribbean heritage. I went to Yale. What you see is not what you think you're getting.

You absolutely cannot be big time tech guy without attending Burning Man.

I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

People look at me, and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. I always thought I'd be the white person in a black play.

I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.

I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fit their mould of what an Aboriginal Australian is supposed to be or look like.

I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know?

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

Burning Man is like one big giant art installation in the middle of starkly beautiful desert landscape, and the attendees are creative in the way they dress.

People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

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

My evangelical phase about Burning Man is well and truly in the past.

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

Since I worked with Prince, people assumed that I was black.

I never tried to emulate that New York rap style. What I do is a quasi rap. It's a honky rap, not a black rap. I find it puzzling that so many people have assumed I'm black.

I meet people and a lot of times, instead of saying, "Are you from the East Coast?" people just go, "you're from the East Coast, right?", having no reason to have known that. I don't know what that is. Maybe it's just that I'm Jewish.

Mercy is not a proper Indian name."..........."Rash Coyote Who Runs With Wolf. We could shorten it to Dinner Woman.

When I came to write my Thomas Cromwell books, I moved onto the center ground of English history, but I was never there before. I didn't feel it was my history particularly, coming from Northern Britain, being of Irish extraction, being a cradle Catholic. The image of England I grew up with felt somewhere else. There was an official England in postcards, but it wasn't one I had visited. But I decided to march onto the center ground and occupy it whether it was mine or not.

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie.

Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.

I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be middle-aged, pot-bellied guys named Lou who collect and wear string cheese.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.