Quotes About Misconception

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

Most people want a lot more from us than stuff is worth because they think we're extremely wealthy or something.

A lot of the people who saw me in the 'Lethal Weapon' movies didn't even know I was a singer.

Am I not correct in saying that Iran has never voiced that they are developing a nuclear weapon, nor do they have any intention of using a nuclear weapon against the United States? That's never actually been voiced. I don't know where that has come from, but it hasn't been from Iran.

I've studied martial arts, but of course I'm not anywhere near the level of my father. Still, people assume I'm a lethal weapon anyway!

I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.

Because I'm on my own on stage and wear bare feet and look like a pixie, people always think I'm little.

People seem to think I got where I am because of the clothes that I wear.

When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.

Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer.

Viewers don't see more of anchors because we shoot only once a week and it's aired across three months; so, you always feel that a certain person is only anchoring. I've been acting for fifteen years and hosting for seven years, but I haven't done a soap, so a lot of people tend to think I'm not acting anymore.

Ambien is one of the most prescribed pills in America. A lot of people take it every night or several times a week or several times a month in order to help them sleep. I'm just not one of those people. That's the perception of me. But that's not the reality.

To the untrained eye, poker seems deceptively easy.

Pole dancing is way harder than it looks.

Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

I hear from people all the time and it infuriates me that 'President Obama's a brilliant politician.' No he absolutely is not.

Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.