Quotes About Misunderstanding

People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn't define it in the early Fifties when I was starting out.

People that like Slipknot that could care less about Stone Sour, people that like Stone Sour that don't know a lot of Slipknot.

If I'm stood besides any man, I'm going to be accused of flirting.

Because of that I don't care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh?

Over the years, things got so bad between my mother and I, we stopped talking to each other and started communicating by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.

A lot of things that should not be written were written without checking with me, things that were not in good taste. That hurt me. That is why I stopped talking to the press. Because they didn't want to ask me. They just wanted to write what they felt like.

A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

I've numerous times heard mothers in stores tell their children not to go near me.

Narratively speaking, innocent misunderstandings are disappointing. Arbitrary events are also disappointing. The stories that really grab our attention involve not accidents but people doing things on purpose - to get things they desperately want.

When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.'

One of the saddest things in this world is to see a child grow up hating one of their parents because they only got one side of the story.

I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job.

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'

A lot of straight people think I'm nuts.

I think this is the funny thing about PWR BTTM that a lot of people don't realize at first, which is that straight people have always loved us - inexplicably, seemingly.

Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

People have the strangest ideas about dwarves.

The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion.

Your ticket says via Pordenone," he told me. "Don't you read your documento di viaggio?" I was fascinated. What kind of man is it who imagines that when one buys a train ticket one then stops to read it?