Call me Quote by Sigourney Weaver

I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I…

— Leos Carax

At school I was called Fred, which is my middle name. At that time, Fred was considered to be a bit of a horrible…

— Alan Titchmarsh

My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me…

— Ice T

The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant…

— Richelle Mead

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.

— J. August Richards

Everybody had nicknames when I was a kid.

— Soupy Sales

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

— Daniel Tammet

There was a time in my life when people called me 'Denim Dan.' I didn't like it. And fortunately for my self-esteem, it didn't…

— Dan Levy

I think my parents were high when they named me.

— Jolene Blalock

So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.

— Herbie Hancock

What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before…

— Laverne Cox

I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.

— Ken Venturi