Quotes About Misconception

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.

People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.

Bilingualism used to have an undeservedly bad reputation; then it got an undeservedly exalted one.

My reputation precedes me all the time, but I'm not the monster people think I am.

I resent ever being stereotyped.

As a fellow science fiction author, Heinlein largely raised me, and I resent it when some folks lazily dismiss Heinlein as a 'right winger' or even 'fascist.'

Most of the world genuinely believes that I was the owner of 8chan and that I could shut it down whenever I wanted.

I am shy. People misconstrue it as arrogance.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

The funny thing is that everyone thinks I'm naturally dark because all of my siblings are, but I'm naturally dirty blond.

I was just so sick. I thought that orange juice was going to make me fat.

I was never close to signing for Manchester United, no.

Most American adults know what a drag queen is, but as they're portrayed in films like 'Dressed to Kill' and 'Silence of the Lambs.'

What really ticks me off is how the public figures you automatically become the roles you play. What most people never see is the silly side of me.

A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

The ones doing that, counting me out, are going to look silly.

No one needs to treat you like a star kid in the industry, but you do get pointed at... people assume you get everything on a silver platter, but that's not true.

When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that.

This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

Often, "reality" means nothing more than conventional reality. And conventional reality is almost always wrong. Ask Dick Rowe of Decca Records, who turned down the Beatles.

Things can fool you sometimes.

A lot of people were mistaken about a lot of things.