Quotes About Misconception

Fingerprint matching is - you know the whole thing about how no two fingerprints are alike? That's not strictly true.

People think I'm clever, which is hilarious. I'm like, 'When did this happen? People used to think I couldn't string a sentence together.'

Take 'The Stroke,' for instance. Plenty of people saw sexual connotations in that song but to me it was about what goes on in the business world.

There are enormous dangers in thinking that the world online is the world as it exists, that what you get from your one stroke on the Internet is all there is to know.

Apparently, I hear from people I always play strong women. I don't see them that way.

We'd boil this whisky because we thought that would make it stronger. So we thought we were getting drunk, but in fact there'd be no alcohol left in it.

I went looking for some preliminary information, and very quickly was struck by the sort of way the surface-level knowledge about Zelda doesn't begin to describe the person that she really is. You know, I had come to the project with the idea that she was, you know, just F. Scott Fitzgerald's crazy, disruptive wife.

When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that Cary Grant was an extra. I had no idea about the structure of film, but I loved going to the cinema.

What is important for me is that the people who know me for real know Mario how he really is. People who don't know me, they read newspapers and they watch TV. TV is made to give a lot of opinions... so I can't show the real Mario to everybody.

It doesn't make it any easier that people form opinions and make judgment calls and think I'm something that I'm not or do things that I don't.

People write me off, and yet then, when I fight people, my opponents have a completely different opinion of me afterwards.

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.

I lived in Arizona, and I thought Florida was in California because I thought oranges came from the same place.

I'll tell you one big misconception. Cops never say 'Freeze!' It might be misinterpreted. They might think you were, like, ordering fries. Or that you had fleas.

'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.

Even before the movie was made, people already thought I was the original Lurch.

I didn't try to cry my way out of Orlando. That was never my intention, or not what I did at all. And I understand everybody thought it was that way because of what was being put out there.

To the uninitiated, the Hasidim constitute a rather homogeneous sect of orthodox Jewry, but this is far from being true.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.