Quotes About Misconceptions

People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.

I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.

No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.

It is one of the little known facts about modern Scottish politics that it is not quite as cut-throat as people think it is.

My problem with the word 'clean' is that it has become too complicated. It has become too loaded. When I first read the term, it meant natural, unprocessed. Now it doesn't mean that at all. It means diet. It means fad.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

If you think having a tech job is the answer to all your problems, think again.

I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'

Teenage girls in television and film, in my experience, oftentimes are portrayed as either the sweet, innocent virgin or the super-sexy, experienced, town bicycle. There never seems to be an in-between. I think most girls are somewhere in between those two tropes.

When Roger Ailes hired me, he knew I was the daughter of a college professor and a nurse. There was nothing in this resume that would telegraph, 'She's a secret conservative.'

Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.

There's a stigma to skating. People think of it as a kid's sport. People kept telling me I couldn't possibly make a living out of it. Then they said I couldn't keep it up in my 30s. And here I am in my 40s, and I'm still improving my skills.

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.

The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that that tells you something about how they behave. It doesn't.

When I tell people that I am acting in Telugu, they ask me if I have to overact.

Everything we think we know about entrepreneurs is WRONG!

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so

The frequent claims that empty churches and low levels of religious activity in Europe today reflect a steep decline in piety are wrong—it was always thus.

It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.

Some] Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.

American people whether they agree that plants create the oxygen in the air, light travels faster than sound, or you cannot make radioactive milk safe by boiling it, you will get double-digit disagreement in each case (13 percent, 24 percent, and 35 percent, respectively

Why is it when a man gets mad, he's aaangry, but when a woman gets mad, it's just a tantrum?" She paused, struck by what he'd said.

Lani might be a screw-up with horrible taste in men, but she was still a mom. Why people assumed those things couldn't go together, I'll never know.

My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to everyone and the anecdotes are not representative.