Quotes About Misunderstanding

I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.

If I knew what the audience wants to hear I would be the richest guy in the world! There are a lot of people who think they know what the audience wants but are sadly rejected.

That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

Most people can relate to that whole annoying thing when people think they know who you are.

The people who relate to Playboy, both readers and people who produce it, are not the way the critics think they are.

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.

I remember I was at a press conference where somebody came up to me with absolute confidence, like he knew me forever, and whispered in my ear, 'You should sing a song now. The Indian audience will enjoy it. Your songs will improve India and Pakistan's relations.' I clarified to him that I wasn't Ali Zafar.

People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.

A lot of my die-hard fans think I have a lot of hits, but I don't.

I really thought that Billy Joel had two hits. I thought it was 'Uptown Girl' and 'Piano Man,' and that was basically it.

I found it quite funny when my teacher at secondary school saw me bowl and wanted me to throw the javelin. So I tried, and I kept hitting the back of my head!

I loved the 'Lord of the Rings' books, 'The Hobbit.' And my parents, they still don't understand it because they hate fantasy stuff. Neither of them are into it. So I don't know where it comes from.

I am hated in my hometown.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

When I was younger, I'd listen to a song and take it literally. I'd think, Boy, what a drag. How horrible, he must be really bummin'.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

New Zealanders can be a little hostile.

God has been kind, people have given me a household name. Even after 30 years, they think I am Duryodhana.

Sometimes I get a lot of stuff, being in Houston, being in a conservative place, and wearing weird stuff that I wear. People don't get it sometimes. I like it.

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

I have facial blindness. It's hugely embarrassing as it makes me seem supercilious or snobbish.

I'm a sarcastic person, and people don't get my humor sometimes.

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.