Situational Identity Quotes

I am one Dana when I am talking to my daughter, another when I am talking to the IRS, and another still when I do an interview. These characters are just extreme versions of ordinary human self-switching.

You are not the same person working alone as you are in a group; in a romantic setting versus an educational one; when you are with close friends or in an anonymous crowd; or when you are traveling abroad as when at home base.

As soon as I step on the field, totally different person. As soon as I step off, I go back to who I've always been.

Race is not something inherent to one's being: One does feel more or less colored, depending on the situation.

What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what she is for me. I love her as character in our common love story. what wuld Hamlet be without the castle at Elsinore, without Ophelia, without all the concrete situations he goes through, what would he be without the text of his part? What would be left but an empty, dumb, illusory essence?

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.

I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.