Quotes About Misconceptions

I think people can be quick to judge. The people that know me, they know what I am like.

I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

People don't want to think... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's simply not the case. There are radical people and radical ideas in absolutely every movement, but that doesn't mean they define the ideals.

When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.

What I don't like is the way people automatically think I am a kept woman, that he pays my expenses. This puts me in a rage. I've always paid my own way, even while living in his mansion. I've kept an apartment of my own. In fact, I not only buy my own clothes, but many of Hef's, too - he just hates to shop.

I actually rarely ever get hit on. Isn't that funny? People think I do, but I actually don't.

There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.

I'm not an adulterer. I'm not gay.

People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually.

Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.

No, I'm not gay.

People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.

The general public don't like boxers. They prefer tennis players.

People generalize music by how you look, and I don't like that.

When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.

Can we imagine anything much more viciously sadistic than the Black Ghetto mother?

Black people don't really see ghosts or aliens.

I don't get much studio stuff. I'm usually on location, and I know that some people think that acting is so glamorous, but believe me, it's not!

People think we're always dark and gloomy, and we're not.

How long's your vacation? A year. Maybe longer. A year? What did you do? Win the lottery? Most americans we met on the road, or at least the ones without nose rings, had a hard time fathoming the idea of a year's travel. Australians and Germans would nod in of course approval. Our country men would fixate on language barriers or some hideous tropical disease. They'd talk about the nightmare scenario - a Third World appendectomy and not being able to tell the doctor to use clean needles.

I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.

There will always be people who will criticise you without knowing the facts.

The cliches that circulate in the German media about Joachim Sauer are a total fallacy. The fact is that he's his own man. He's witty, he's profound, he can be incredibly funny, and he's an extremely bright guy.