Identity Label Quotes

I don't have issues around how I'm identified.

I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.

My nickname is Esta Bell.

If you were to put me under one umbrella, call me a storyteller.

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

I usually refer to myself as Hispanic.

I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

I consider myself a woman. I happen to fall into the transgender category, but I rather describe myself as a woman first.

Part of the reason why I've never said that I was gay until now was because I didn't want that adjective assigned to my name for all of eternity. You know, gay Rosie O'Donnell.

But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet the university said I was one. Anybody who has met a real minority - in the economic sense, not the numerical sense - would understand how ridiculous it is to describe a young man who is already at the university, already well into his studies in Italian and English Renaissance literature, as a minority.

I have never really referred to my voice as 'gay.'

My nickname is Saffy.

I guess if I had to classify myself, I'd say I'm straight.

To call me a woman is very nice.

I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.

I guess I think of myself as an actor before I think of myself as a gay actor.

People call me a 'model-actress,' when I just never started with that... it's not my story.

The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

If I want to say I'm a man for three minutes, then be it: I'm a man for three minutes.

I would say I'm - in the show, I'm a cultural Catholic, which is what I was.

I am a very girly girl.

If people feel misled or deceived, then sorry that they feel that way, but I believe that's more due to their definition and construct of race in their own minds than it is to my integrity or honesty, because I wouldn't say I'm African American, but I would say I'm black, and there's a difference in those terms.

It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves.