Finley Peter Dunne Quotes

It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'

I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

I think people think how I got work came easy. People assume that I was an overnight sensation, because they're just now hearing about me, or that everything happened very quickly.

You know how many times I have to witness the transition from, 'Oh, get away from that thug,' to, 'Oh, wait a minute, that's the guy from 'Weeds'! Hey, can I shake your hand?'

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.

People take the little bit of information they're fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it's wrong.

The time that I took between 'Cocktail' and 'Happy Bhaag Jayegi,' a lot of people told me, 'out of sight is out of mind,' and I was like 'Okay, maybe.' And it did happen. Because I wasn't around, people just assumed I was doing other things and was not interested in films which I thought was unfair.

People put me in this ditzy, posh and stuck-up category, so it's been nice the public have been able to see the real me.

I had people think I was brilliant, then 'Half Baked' bricked. They literally look at me like a homeless person.

Every single day, everywhere we went, people were coming up to me and Boyd repeatedly and saying, 'We're life-long Democrats, but we're voting for you. We've never voted for a Republican in our life.'

People have linked me to a lot of people. But people also project what they want to see for you.

It's kind of stupid that people think I'm just partying all the time.

I think that there is a tendency to underestimate the public.

I don't think the Lakers really knew me when they first drafted me. They just saw my name and my size and my stats. They just picked somebody because they had to.

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

I think people underestimate because I'm the rap guy, I'm a crazy guy, screaming all the time. But that doesn't mean that I'm not intelligent.

People think, 'Oh, I don't need to worry about him,' and they underestimate me because I am a rapper.

When Miranda first started becoming popular, not many people knew who she was. People were confused by her. They thought she was a real person. I got a lot of interesting responses.

It's not as if I never used to get under pressure. That is nonsense. It's just that my looks gave an appearance, and people didn't think I was tense.

I feel like people think that I have mental lapses and I'm injury-prone, which isn't true. You just don't know me.

People always meet me and go, 'You're so much cooler than I thought you'd be,' and I'm like, 'What did you expect me to be like?'

All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.

We need to be brave and tell the politicians what a better future could be.

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.