Quotes About Misunderstanding

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

People who have heard of me have heard of me mostly through presenting and asked, 'Why have you gone into comedy?'

I did not expect to encounter what has beset me since my elevation to the presidency. God knows, I have endeavored to fulfill what I considered to be an honest duty, but I have been mistaken; my motives have been misconstrued and my feelings grossly betrayed.

This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.

It's a horrible thing to have someone pretend like they know what you're about and call you a fraud when they haven't given you a fair shot.

I didn't do anything. People are thinking that it's something serious; I have not put my hands on anyone, didn't put anyone in danger. Since I didn't do anything like that, I'm not thinking about it. If I didn't do anything, why should I think about it?

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

I'm an easy date. I meant cheap date, cheap date!

Everyone I dated was gay.

I've dated mostly guys who have corporate jobs and there's always the issue of them thinking my job is easy.

People put dates on any kind of comment that you make.

I was single for a while and dating and... I just didn't know how to do it! I've always been like that: when I was 15, there was a guy I liked, and we made out, and I thought that meant he was my boyfriend.

You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.

People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is coming on 21 December 2012, and I don't.

My face frowns by default, so when I'm most calm is when I appear the least approachable.

You can ask every coach from Ron Gardenhire to Dave Clark, anyone who has seen me play, they don't know why they say I'm a bad defender.

I'm not much of a numbers guy, and yet that's the way I'm defined a lot.

The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

Because I'm married and have kids, I feel like I sometimes get pegged as a choirboy or something, but I wouldn't exactly describe myself that way.

Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.

I've never said I have OCD, as I haven't been diagnosed.

Dialect was my biggest fear. So, I spent a long time working with dialect coaches just trying to get American down. I think it's very important and very easy to misinterpret.

It bloody annoys me when people forget that we're actors. Just because we tend to appear in things with our own accents, saying dialogue that comes naturally to us, people think we're just being ourselves.