Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and they're usually 98 percent wrong.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don't think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it's awful to hear and read what is said of you.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, 'That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.'

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

I am not denying anything I did not say.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately.

I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

People have used my views for purposes which are very different from mine.