Quotes About Misunderstanding

Jeremy Corbyn confuses the public because he looks like a librarian and enjoys baking bread.

Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

Jim Cornette and I have never really seen eye-to-eye.

The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

I thought conceptual art was a joke.

Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me.

When I'm up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it the way I want them to.

If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that.

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

I think 'Cruella' was getting a weird comparison to 'Joker,' saying we're trying to be like that, but we're not at all.

My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.

I've done a lot of different characters, but people never recognize me. I'm not joking.

When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left.

There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

They thought I was mad, and Russians are always sympathetic with mad men.

MARE'S NEST. He has found a mare's nest, and is laughing at the eggs; said of one who laughs without any apparent cause.

Hans Fabermann insisted that 'mining', his only business, was not to be misinterpreted as being a cranial enterprize:

Marx's work has often been dismissed as 'crude dogma', usually by people who give no evidence of having read him.

Every time we make assumptions about what other people feel, do or think, we imprison them and us in a separate reality. When we believe in those assumptions and act accordingly, this separate reality becomes an existential torture chamber for them and ultimately for us. All the terror and pain that we experience or see in the world is the result of our assumptions. Assumptions are the greatest crime in human consciousness. Hence let's start to create an assumption-free world.

They thought he was a dog. If you say "dangerous dog," folk think you're talking about a dog that bites, not someone who hands out deadly weapons at children's parties.

I told you that day: a pair of idiots. I thought she was leading you around by the nose--or some other organ.

The unenlightened call him "Frankenstein," confusing him with his creator. The less-unenlightened call him "the monster," confusing him with his popular reception by the villagers and the local constabulary. But none of us knows, really, what to call him: knows, as it were, what name he would choose for himself, if he were given the choice.