Quotes About Perception

For a little while there, I was thinking, 'I don't want to be in anything on British TV'. I didn't watch any of it because it was rubbish.

People suppose that you are great if you win and rubbish if you lose. Well, actually, whatever the result I still know what I am doing.

None of us knows what a good or bad person is. In real life we're all brilliant and a bit rubbish.

I get angry when people go, 'Oh, you're just rude to people.'

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

The Office' was nothing like anything I had ever done before - the style, everything. And Finchy is so over the top, I really did think it would ruin my career.

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.

MTV ruined music for us.

Appearance rules the world.

I always say that it's tough to judge a player when you're just hearing rumors. It's never accurate.

I've been dealing with link-up rumours even since I was in school.

I'm an athlete, but I'm not a runner. I'm 5-foot-8 and stocky - not exactly a runner's type.

Politics runs music more than talent runs music.

Well, some people assume when Russell is singing that it is coming from his feelings, but sometimes he's just playing a character.

I mean, I'm a political figure in Russia for more than 10 years... This is how people in Russia know me.

There are a lot of people who are trying hard to sell themselves as Russian vodkas.

Although I don't understand Russian, I like the sound.

I'm not a Russian sympathizer, but after being in Russia for that long many years... like, look... they way they think isn't wrong, it's just different.

Russian people are not stupid. They know that the system we are living in is undemocratic.

Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting.

I think what makes me so appealing is the audience doesn't expect me to be so ruthless.

I'm not the sad sack that people might think I am. But I think that if I didn't write and perform, I probably would be.

When you get sacked, everybody thinks: 'He's a football manager, he'll get lots of money,' but you still get sacked, which for me is a slur on you, it degrades you.

A lot of people didn't see me play in Sacramento. I think we had one TV game.