Jack Dee Quotes

I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.

We're not the millionaires that people think when they see busses.

I think people will be surprised to find that I'm not as much of an idiot as they think I am. I'm not a real moron.

I think people have a misconception of me, period. My life has been a whirlwind sometimes, but it's different to what people think. I definitely feel like there's a misconception about me and who I am.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold drinks running everywhere and a party all the time. They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don't really exist. Things are actually fairly simple.

People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets.

People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.

People just - they don't really know me. They see me on "The Simple Life," they think that's really who I am.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.

People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

Whether I'm running on the beach without my shirt or whether I'm going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner - I don't choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.

Sometimes with the Palins, it's exactly what it looks like.