Quotes About Misattributed

I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.

I didn't really say everything I said.

Let them eat cake.

The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220)

I'm told that Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson" (at least in the Arthur Conan Doyle books) Jimmy Cagney never said, "You dirty rat"; and Humphrey Bogart never said, "Play it again, Sam." But they might as well have, because these apocrypha have firmly insinuated themselves into popular culture.

Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."

I never said most of the things I said.