Quotes About Misunderstood

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

I know I rubbed people the wrong way.

You'll find that all WWE performers, when they go on to any television show or set of any kind, we're more prepared that we get credit for. We don't get enough credit.

People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.

Sometimes people ask me, 'You do stand-up?' I try explaining what I do, and I don't think they really get it. So: 'Yeah, I do stand-up.' I wish there was one word to express what I do - that way, I don't sound arrogant. Whenever I say I'm a performer, people think I'm a performance artist: 'She paints herself white and pretends to be a flower.'

Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me.

Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.

I know I have a reputation that is not so flattering, but I guess I owe it to just being a private person. I don't mean anyone harm, and I'm not being mean. I just don't socialise much; I don't party too much. I don't know what to say to the media if I'm not talking about a film that I am doing, so yeah, maybe I am perceived as a snob.

I have been a funny kid growing up but every one thought I was a serious person. I think it has to do with the choice of my films such as 'Zakhm,' 'Kalyug' and 'Traffic Signal.'

American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood.

People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

Transgender people really are misunderstood.

We didn't know you were an introvert, we thought you were just a bitch.

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'

I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.

I've always had a resting expression that either makes me look deep in thought or as though I'm about to fight you. I've lost count of the number of directors asking me what the problem is when all I'm doing is sitting still and being.