Quotes About Misconceptions

You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.'

Around the world, when China has good results, people always think something bad.

People have a weird idea of what happens with a successful series. After it's over they think we just retire to green pastures. Well, it ain't so.

I've been very fortunate. But rich? People make huge assumptions about the guys in Gn'R.

There are so many ridiculous arguments that MMA is somehow anti-woman.

There are people out there who would enjoy my books but wouldn't pick them up because they think it's not going to be for them. I find it infuriating.There's a lot more going on in my books than just romance.

I have been in rooms with people arguing over a character that's not really fleshed out: that, just because the surname is Latino, that automatically means you have an accent.

Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.

Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.

I was not a 'Doctor Who' fan. As a kid, I thought it was scary and for boys.

I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which is not true.

It's not overwhelming or shocking to play against the SEC, like most fans think.

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.

I feel like a lot of Indian fans don't know about my Indian background, so it's funny online that a lot of fans call me this Pakistani dude. No, I'm Indian, too.

Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.

We need to expose the lies and educate the Palestinian public that Israel is not the enemy. Israel actually helps the people of Gaza more than anybody else. We need the average Palestinian to see this clearly.

That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just totally wrong. It might have said something in the large papers in the bigger city headlines and things. But, you take a look at any of the local papers, and you will see that I was acquitted. I never went to jail.

I don't want people abroad to see India like it's shown in a film like 'Slumdog Millionaire.' We are at par with the world.

I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

During the negotiation process, it's common for misconceptions to occur, since both parties assume what the other person is saying or thinking. This can lead to conflicts or disagreements.

I'm so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I'm like an English boy going to an American college. I'm thinking cheerleaders, I'm thinking kegs. That's not what's on the cards.

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.