Quotes About Misconceptions

Whenever you say you're a physicist, there's a certain fraction of people who immediately go, 'Oh, I hated physics in high school.' That's because of the terrible influence of high school physics. Because of it, most people think physics is all about inclined planes and force-vector diagrams.

Sadly, in my work on shows like 'Eat Well For Less?' I know that people ARE misinformed about what's on their plate. Many would be shocked to discover their Friday fish and chips is close to 1,400 calories.

Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake.

Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists.

How many women's football matches are selling out week in, week out, 20,000 plus? They're not.

I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.

What I need is for comics to not cheapen out and just do what they think a bunch of bloodthirsty 15 year old fans want.

I get comments saying that I'm a leper, I control how my skin changes, I bleach my skin, my skin's burned. None of those are true.

I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.

I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

I think a lot of American fans or people that read about us - they think that we're trying to be a part of the American culture, like all these Swedish kids that love America. We rap in English, so I guess there's something, but we're very Swedish, actually.

I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'

I've never really been America's sweetheart, but for a minute I think that's what they wanted me to be.

People don't understand fighting. They think you just go there and stand in the middle and swing for the fence. People who fight like this are idiots.

That whole idea of chick lit being a thing that you just lump all the commercial female writers into - it went on for years.I'd switch on the radio, and I'd hear, 'Two female authors are here to discuss chick lit - is it dead?' and I'd think, 'Argh, no, not again. Are we seriously still having this conversation?'

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.