Quotes About Perception

It's so funny because people always think of me as being a little bit country or assume that I am from the South - I don't know why!

People are always going to assume I got my roles because of my father. There's not much I can do about that. He and I talk about the business sometimes, but he's my dad.

I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

People always assume that, if you're an actor who's been on anything from which you're recognisable, that you're making all this money, and it's just not true.

I never assume people are going to recognize me.

I'm not a down-in-the-dumps person. I think some people assume that I am because of the music I write.

People assume that acting is an easy job. When you actually do it, you know how hard that is.

I just always assume no one is listening.

I have a Chicago personality, which means that just because I'm friends with one person, I don't assume I'm friends with his friends.

I never walk into a room and assume everyone knows who Raheem DeVaughn is.

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

A lot of people just assume men's tennis is better.

People used to assume I was a serious/sad person because of my music for some reason.

I think a lot of people would probably assume that I had a bad relationship with LSU, and I don't think that was ever the case.

I'm a very laidback sort of guy, but people assume I am a serious actor and a serious person. That is not true.

I can see how people would just assume I am a no-nonsense kind of girl, you know? But the truth is, it's not who I am. But when I need to be, I can be tough.

You sort of assume that everyone knows how television works, but they don't actually, why should they?

My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.

When I was younger, I always assumed that when I grew up, I would be living in the country, and my kids would be going to a state school. But that's not how things have turned out. I can't see myself being able to leave London.

If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects, poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that.

Since I worked with Prince, people assumed that I was black.

I've read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that's not true. I think that's just people assuming things. In some ways, I wish I was raised Episcopalian. I was kind of raised hodgepodge.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.