Quotes About Misunderstanding

People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!

Ironically at drama school I was told I didn't have a voice conducive for radio.

As a kid, I didn't know that 'All in the Family' was satirizing male chauvinism or that Bobby Riggs was a self-promoting put-on. Many of us didn't get the irony and went on making fun of women and girls who wanted to play sports, especially the same sports that men and boys traditionally played.

'Irony' is such an over-used word.

This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

It's probably incorrect to say that Islam is 'a religion of peace,' as some politicians like to say. Overstatements like that don't clarify anything.

People sometimes have a bad image of Islam but that is an image of what people are doing with Islam.

I believe that much of Hollywood is confused about Israel.

The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.

There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.

When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.

People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

I don't dislike Matt Lindland. I didn't blackball him from the UFC, either. Matt Lindland is a good guy and I've never had a personal issue with him.

People misinterpret my lyrics sometimes too, but I mean, it is what it is.

Russia has never been very good at explaining itself to foreigners.

My wife kept looking at the Jack Paar show and telling me that's what I should be doing on television. But I kept telling her she was wrong.

If people want to see me as the bad boy because one of my friends has gone to jail, then that's what they're going to think, but they haven't a clue about my life and what I've had to deal with growing up and the things I've been around.

I hate that song 'Mr. Bojangles.' It drives me up the wall, since it's not about him at all. He was never a bum in jail.

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

James Brown hated me until the day he died.

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.

After 'Gangs,' people thought that I couldn't speak a sentence in English or that I don't wear jeans or, you know, I am a city girl.