Quotes About Misconception

Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they're scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves.

The image that is on screen is very different from who I am in real life.

I actually thought, like, I was sure 'Get Smart' and, like, 'James Bond' movies, I was sure that that's what real life was like.

A lot of people know the name Gloria Vanderbilt, but they don't really know the whole story behind her, the real person that she is.

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

I don't think people realise the quality of player in the lower leagues.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm a chancer and they think I'm lucky! They don't realise that I have actually earned it, because I have worked with so many bands. That's all I've ever done is work in music.

The women's game has grown, but when I was playing at Arsenal, I don't think people realised how good we actually were. I think there's just a perception that we just play football, but we're not very good, and it was a challenge for us to try and prove those type of people wrong.

People have told me that the dialogue in '100 Bullets' is very realistic. I don't agree.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.

The idea that people are nutritionally deprived because they don't eat grain has no scientific basis.

I thought Bentleys were supposed to be grandma cars.

One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.

A lot of people think that my last name is Gray. My middle name is Gray, and my last name is Beech.

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Rumours of me being Banksy are greatly exaggerated. We are all Banksy.

If you Google St Petersburg, it shows you some amazing buildings. When you go there, you realise that there are a lot of grey depressing ones that aren't on Google.

I have fans that write to me and say, 'Why do you have those blonde streaks in the front of your hair?' And I'm like, 'It's not blonde. It's grey.'

We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.

I don't believe in gun bans; that's a fallacy that people have, that they think if you believe in gun control you want to ban guns. That's not true.

Reputations are often undeserved,' said Moncharmin. 'I have the reputation of knowing all about music, but I don't the difference between the treble clef and the bass clef.' 'Don't worry, you've never had that reputation,' Richard assured him.

She was staring at the low ceiling, and I had the feeling that there was another Severian there, the kind and even noble Severian who existed only in Dorcas's mind. All of us, I suppose, when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak.