Personal Identification Quotes

I'm that person who owns all of the seasons on DVDs, including the Lifetime intimate portraits showcasing The Golden Girls. I am a massive fan. I think I'm Dorothy. She's my favorite.

When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave.

Oasis were massive for me, because of the attitude and what they represented and how outspoken they were. It felt like they were exactly like me.

All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.

A lot of artists I like end up being queer. Or maybe it's a subconscious thing that you can identify of, like, 'Oh this person understands the nuances of the romantic narrative of a queer person, or the social narrative of a queer person.' And then you discover, lo and behold that they are a queer person.

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.

I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt like Kleber [Mendonca] had been spying on me in order to create this role [in Aquarius]. Clara and I have different backgrounds. I come from an intuitive world, and she's an academic, but when we got together, we really became one. There are many times when I'm watching the film where Clara will say something, and I will find myself agreeing with her. It was the first time that I had this weird sensation that the character I played is so me, but yet it's so her.

First name: Mister; middle name: period; last name T.

You can always find people, ordinary people, who will support your particular view, so it becomes a politics of personality, especially at the presidential level. People often go for somebody that they like or somebody that they can identify with.

A telephone number shouldn't represent a home or a car or a restaurant, but instead a person.

He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I'm of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo.

I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

Yes," I said. "My name is seven-five-nine-nine-three-nine-ex-dash-one. Junior.

The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.

I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.

It's in my nature to feel, 'I could be this! This could be mine!'

No one's fingerprints are exactly the same as anyone else's.

Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.

Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.