Quotes About Misunderstanding

I still do get all these letters from people saying they are not pronouncing my name correctly!

I've lost count of the times I've been asked what I do for a living. When I say rugby people say: 'Yes, but what's your other job?'

They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.

I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.

I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.

A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.

One criticism that I hear occassionally is that I am actually not a real liberal, and I am secretly a conservative. Or sometimes they will say I am the only thing worse than a conservative - a dreaded 'right-winger.'

The criticism that Arsene gets is just a joke.

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

Critics always get the lyrics wrong in reviews, which is amusing - especially when they use them against you.

I've seen Graeme Jones getting absolutely crucified and I'm thinking, 'You've got it wrong,' He's one of the best things that's happened to the SFA. He's one of the main guys trying to drive the nation forward.

Aamir once went behind a rock to cry because his director didn't listen to what he was saying.

Hardly anybody realizes that the first couple of chapters of 'Coming Apart' were basically a recapitulation of the argument in 'The Bell Curve.' That's how little people focused on 'The Bell Curve's' real message.

A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.

You can do a lot of damage if you try to answer a question part-way.

When you get blamed for something you haven't done, it brings collateral damage.

Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about.

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.

People too often - because it's an easy, lazy tag - dwell on my style of football.

You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.

Other teams and other opponents, they look and see I'm 6-foot-10 and think I'm a 5 man or whatever, so they try to take advantage of it.

We have all said things that are offensive when taken out of context. You don't need to tell the public to be repelled. They will tell you they are repelled.