I don't have issues around how I'm identified.
I hate people thinking I'm some pretentious fraud.
I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.
Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.
I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.
I hate when people call me a socialite because you have to have money to be a socialite, which I don't have.
I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.
As far as the industries go, in the North, they think I'm a South Indian actress; down South, I've always been thought of as a Bombay girl. I guess it's sort of an identity crisis, even though I'd like to belong to all the industries.
I think people couldn't really put me in [one race]. I wasn't Mexican, I wasn't white, I wasn't black, I wasn't Asian... I wasn't anything, and I didn't really fit into anybody's group. My dad is Mexican, and my mom is French and Danish.
I always have a hard time describing myself.
I remember doing stand-up at an open mic a long time ago, and the MC was like, 'Who's next?' I said, 'Marietta Sirleaf,' and he was like, 'What?' And I was like, 'Ugh, okay, just Retta.' It stuck with me ever since.
They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!
Poppy does not identify with an age.
It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself.
I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe.
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
I didn't ask to be short. I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter.
The fans called me Jungleman. They said this young guy's not white. He's black in a white man's skin.
Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.
With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for Asian-Americans only.
Now if anyone calls me Anthony, I usually don't respond.
I've never seen the film 'Gulliver's Travels' - and I'm in it.
I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
It's a bit odd to have a daughter who sounds American.
You're still being looked at as somebody who - it's a very complicated issue.
