Hunter Schafer Quotes

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.

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

I wish when I was 15 that I realized my voice was important and that even my thoughts and my opinions had value. Had I known, I probably would've spoken up more. I probably would've found my activism sooner and become a writer sooner.

The people who watch you on the court often don't know you as an actual person - a human being.

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.