Quotes About Perception

When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.

There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.

Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.

I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.

I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.

Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.

I am really surprised that what I am wearing on 'Countdown' has got into the papers.

I don't really read the papers.

If you ask most people, 'Who's Lily Allen?,' they'll say, 'That girl who's in the papers all the time.' Not that girl who wrote songs.

I don't read the papers. I don't want to read what the press says.

People think I'm crazy, and it's been written in the papers that I'm off my rocker.

Actually, it doesn't matter to the papers why you left Glasgow. They never look at the roots of the problems you had, and you simply end up being painted as un-nationalistic.

In the papers, they were talking about how 'Friends' is now sort of really homophobic, transphobic and so on. That, for me, is a very, very - it's actually a puritanical position, which I think of as conservative.

The world for our law enforcement community has changed dramatically: everything from filling out paperwork to relationships with the community and how they think the narrative is in the media.

I don't want people abroad to see India like it's shown in a film like 'Slumdog Millionaire.' We are at par with the world.

If you go on the Internet and type in 'Lee Ryan one liners,' I think I'm on par with Gandhi.

People tell me, 'It's not on par with Vellimoonga,' after watching my movies.

After the 'Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain' controversy, people believed they made my career, but I now maintain that 'Bigg Boss' made Shilpa Shinde.

Most people seem to think I am something of a character and the things that have befallen me are par for my course.

If you think about the way we experience art, the paradigm is still Western European. If I go to the National Gallery, what am I going to see the most of? I'm not going to see a whole lot of black figures in pictures.