Quotes About Misunderstanding

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

All my life I have faced this awkwardness, as I almost sound like a guy. In fact, whenever I would call my friends, their dads would say, 'Hold on son.'

I still get blokes who say, 'Oh you hate men, don't you?' And I say, 'No, I just hate you.' I really love doing that, just to see the look on their faces.

My job is to analyze conversations and discover why communications fail.

I never said I was at the Alamo. Someone else said I was at the Alamo. Now I'm a nutter. I don't think that's fair.

Some people thought Theophilus was a fake name. Whatever.

I used to do a lot of pratfalls on stage. And I tell you, when a guy with cerebral palsy falls down on stage on purpose - nobody ever knows if it was real or not.

These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.

There have been so many false things written about me by people who don't know me.

Terence Crawford has always had a short fuse. Terence would get so angry that his eyes would well up and he would tear up. People looked at him like he was soft. But they didn't understand. That's how his anger comes out.

My friend... used to tease me about a tattoo I had right here, but it was so big, and what he was teasing me about - he said it looked like a flying monkey. It's supposed to have been a grim reaper holding a ball. But it did look like a monkey.

Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.

Because I was fast, technical, and could dribble well, it was always the easy thing to label me just a winger and have me stick to that.

While the word 'bisexual' was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.

I don't care about technique. I have kind of been pigeonholed as a technical drummer since I was in Dream Theater for all those years, but it's actually very far from the truth.

I love the love that you see for 'Ted Lasso,' but there's also, I think, a kind of simplification of the show. Particularly from people who haven't seen it and are only aware of the hype and probably get annoyed with it.

I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.'

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they're just on another planet.

My mum told me that grown-ups don't like teenagers, which is the last thing you want to hear when you are one yourself!

I feel like, as teenagers, they do rebel and say things sometimes they don't mean.