Quotes About Misconception

And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

You should hear all the people talking to me about Heath Ledger, and yet I'm the only person shooting his mouth off out there about what everyone actually already knows.

When I was making 'Bourne Identity,' I wasn't making a dumb action movie like they were expecting it to be.

I didn't really want to be a movie star. I thought they were so screwed up!

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.

I really want to do a dark character. Not really a bad guy, but someone dark and mysterious. Where everyone says, 'Ooh, it has to be her!' and at the end you find out it isn't. Just someone who looks guilty.

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that's wrong.

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.

There's a myth on the Internet that I'm afraid of heights. I don't know where that came from, but it isn 't true.

Let's get rid of the myth that I'm rich.

You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn't have an IQ higher than four.

Misconception Number 1, the public always thought, 'Reggie has a massive ego; he's narcissistic, he's cocky, he needs everyone to look at him all the time,' because that's what the media told them. Wrong. I could handle the attention. I didn't let the attention affect my performance. But I never needed the attention.

Whether it's in Jobcentres or in Whitehall, young people are constantly coming up against a narrative that portrays them as lazy and feckless, when in reality nothing could be further from the truth.

on the first night of the program. She waltzed around the set topless. She asked what asparagus was and said, "Rio de Janeiro, ain't that a person?" She referred to East Anglia as "East Angular," thought Portugal was in Spain, and complained that she was

They're spreading out. Look unaware and sweet and innocent. It's a little hard to look innocent when I'm as big as a house.

We are not the vampires in your horror stories, the walking dead, for God's sake.

The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.

Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.

Yeah, that's right, Lash. Because I'm Chinese I have a deep-seated need to nosh house pets. Now why don't you let him in before my inner Chinaman forces me to kung-fu your bitch ass.