Quotes About Perception

I think if we taped a lot of families that claim to be relatively normal, you'd be surprised when you hear some of the things said.

I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.

I am always sort of delightedly surprised when someone recognizes me because as far as I'm concerned, I'm just going to work and getting paid to act, and that alone is fantastic; I forget people watch it, too.

When people meet me, they're often surprised - I talk a great deal.

I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.

I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.

People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.

When people meet me, and I'm generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, they're almost surprised. And simultaneously disappointed.

When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.

I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know... It's just really remarkable.

When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's this idea that because I'm black, I just look a certain way.

One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there's more.

I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

I think people are a little surprised sometimes at the level on which I actually talk. I don't talk like Caine. And every once in a while, somebody is surprised because I smoke and I drink. But I don't feel that is a contradiction.

People are surprised when Hollywood characters act the way a real person would.

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel.

Living as we do in the age of Facebook, we shouldn't be surprised that some countries are starting to imagine themselves more as social networks than as a physical place.

I was very surprised to get a reading for 'Arrested Development' because it really seemed to be the opposite of that which I was known for doing.

It's amazing to me that some kids are surprised to find out Indians are still alive.

I think people are often surprised, but I never defined myself as, 'I'm the business guy who has to supersede what my father has done.'

For 'Pariah,' people were surprised Kim Wayans was there, but comedians have a dark streak; they're comedians for a reason.

I'm a really big Fiona Apple fan, and more times than not, when I put her on in the car, people are surprised. I think they associate her less as a songwriter and more as a '90s MTV generation artist.

When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here.

I'm still surprised when people tell me I look like a queen.