Unrecognized Identity Quotes

If I am just, like, on a run by myself, I've never been stopped. Even if I'm at Target buying my own action figure, people would not believe that it's me. I actually was like, 'This is me!'

In spite of a heavy disguise, a few days' growth on my face, dark glasses, a beret and one of William's jackets that fitted me not at all, as I emerged from a hotel in Lecce, a young fisherman pointed me out to his friends and said "Lavrenche Olivaire." It was not all that amazing; if you're not known in Italy, you're not known anywhere.

I am life. I have no name. I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains.

People know me as 'Wipeout Girl' or 'Mercury Girl.' They never know my name, and sometimes, maybe that's a good thing.

I notice the older I get, the more my speaking voice turns people around. Even if they have no idea who I am, they know they've heard this weird nasal disaster somewhere before.

I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70!

I think it's more interesting to play a place where no one really knows you, but I think touring is also great.

I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.

I wish I could be proud of being an Israeli citizen, but how can I do that when I'm not really recognized as a full citizen?

I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.

When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.

The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home.

I can, and do, walk the street. No one bothers me or anything, because most people wouldn't know who I am.

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

My daddy didn't even sign my birth certificate. So I ain't never had his last name.

If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.

I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are.