Quotes About Misunderstanding

I really need to work. People think that I'm no longer interested in acting and only interested in working with the animals. Obviously I have given that impression, but it is not how I feel. I think I'm a good actor. I think I look OK. I don't understand why I'm not working all the time.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

As I grow older, the idea takes increasing hold in me that we've misunderstood our own delicacy and diversity as human beings.

I think that people like to put you down to one line - a synopis of some kind. And I just don't pay any attention to it.

I would play like one minute or not even get in at all. I'd see on Twitter - people would say, 'I hate that Grayson Allen guy at the end of the bench.' I'm like, 'What did I do?! I was in the game for 30 seconds.'

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn. One of the things we try to do is educate individuals that knowing information is empowering.

Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.

I think kids don't like me much. Even my nephew used to cry when he was a kid and I used to go close to him. I don't know what they are sensing from me, I have only love to give.

Often times, if you're a bit of a crossover artist, audiences see you as only one thing.

I had one guy say, 'I watched your show and didn't agree with what you said.' And I'm like, 'It's a joke. How could you not agree? I can understand you saying it's not funny.' But it's like my going onstage and doing a knock-knock and somebody going, 'I disagree. There's no door here.'

I think that there was a lot of fantasy projected onto me, and that resulted in a reappropriation and re-characterization of who I am.

At the time, when I was growing up,my habits were misconstrued as laziness, not caring. But when I got out onto the pitch I actually did care about football, I just showed it in a different way.

I'm interested in when language fails, when it is opaque.

I mean, a lot of the times I think I'm seen as a bad girl, and I think that's because I'm so open.

I have been hearing gossip and lies since I began working. When I was 17, I used to get very angry because I opened a magazine and I saw myself in a picture on a motorcycle, and the headline was, 'I'm getting married next month.'

When I was opening my first bank account, the person at the counter thought I was a girl.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets she took him.

I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and all my poets look exactly like pianists

I am always saying what I shouldn't say; in fact, I usually say what I really think--a great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.

I rely on you to misrepresent me.

My one quarrel is with words.