Identity : (103)

" I think we all have identity crises throughout our lives. " - Justin Simien

" I identify as queer. I just don’t know what any of these labels mean. " - Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

" There’ll always be that prep in me that I can’t seem to get rid of. " - Chloe Sevigny

" I’m so many different things in one. I’m like, really, truly a New Yorker. " - Julia Fox

" Even though I’m a hairdresser and I love doing hair, I feel like I don’t look like a groomer. When I think of how a groomer would look in relation to the first version of ‘Queer Eye,’ I feel like I don’t fit in that box. " - Jonathan Van Ness

" I often play characters on TV shows that are more sweet and naive and just kind of puppy-dog eyes, and I don’t think I am like that as a person. " - Lauren Lapkus

" My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That’s what my parents called me. I also got ‘Teddy Ruxpin’ a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out ‘James Franco’ my junior year of high school, I didn’t correct her. " - James Franco

" My father’s name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad’s namesake. But it’s hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, ‘No one capitalizes my D!’ " - KaDee Strickland

" It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty. " - Florida Scott-Maxwell

" When I arrived at Roma, someone defined me as Giotto, ‘The Painter,’ but the nickname I prefer is the one I got from Captain Francesco Totti, ‘The Little Prince.’ " - Miralem Pjanic