Mark Leyner Quotes

My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.'

There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity.

I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

There is an image of me in France that is a long stretch from who I really am. I read about this girl who lives in grand hotels and has affairs with American actors - I don't recognise this girl at all. Sometimes it makes me depressed. Sometimes it makes me laugh. Sometimes I think, 'Gosh, that sounds nice, I'd love to be that girl.'

I want to figure out myself as a man.

It's funny; I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

I act, but I am a mother first and wife second.

I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself.

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