Tim Minchin Quotes

Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.'

I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

I feel more Asian than anything.

God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

There are several different traits that make up a person's identity. For me, being Vietnamese American is the entirety of who I am.

I don't identify as white. I have a complex relationship with whiteness.

I feel so much more connected with my Asian side than I do with my British side - of course, I'm proud of my British side.

Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough to be white.

Do I look like a sex-symbol or a pin-up boy? It's just that my father presented me like a dream.

Although he may not be human, it’s good that Messi still thinks he is.

I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of one's egotism, which is a very different matter.

I've only ever been mistaken for myself. People draw a lot of comparisons to all of the round-faced, mustached men of entertainment that make me cringe and sick to my stomach about how the world really sees me and they're right.

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.

Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."

These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn’t be human.

Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go

When I walk out into the street or go to the toilet, I don't think of myself as being black. Of course, other people think of me as black when I walk into a pub. Obviously being black is a part of me.

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.

I don't think of myself as an American; I see myself as a human being.

I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson.

I think the desire to be with someone beautiful...I just had such a different experience growing up. To be in a position where you're lauded for things that you don't own - and don't think of yourself as - it's so bizarre.