Quotes About Misunderstanding

I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.

Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to.

Trump fans convinced of his strategic genius are welcome to their view, but they're wrong.

My name is well known, but my image is not, because the image presented to the public is very twisted and far from reality. So, not many recognize me on the street. And I don't usually walk around in the streets, either.

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.

Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if they know I've been brought up in the West, they still expect me to understand all the subtleties of their culture, and if I get it wrong, it matters much more than if a British person gets it wrong. I find it intimidating.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.

I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, 'Oh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking.'

In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.

And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.

When people talk about someone you have preconceived judgments.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't.

There was a misunderstanding with Barca. Something happened that I didn't like, but I prefer to keep it for myself.

When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'