Richard Ben Cramer Quotes

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.

A lot of people only see me as villains.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

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.

Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something.

The image of one country and its people amongst peoples of another country is largely created and sustained by the media.

I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.

There's nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it's something positive about Allen Iverson.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

American public opinion sees Arabs as terrorists and has the desert-man image about them. I wish the Americans would see Arabs and Muslims the way I see them... but Arabs are losing the public relations battle in the United States.

When was the last time an Arab MK who appeared on television wasn't there in the role of the accused who is attacked by a skeptical broadcaster?

The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

I think a lot of the media love the game and hate the people who play it.

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.

In mainstream media, everything gets turned into a stereotype of ourselves.

It's just crazy the way people portray me.

Some of what I get, I deserve; I do some dumb stuff sometimes. But I do not deserve the perception that I have.

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.

In the press, there's this desire for the black audience to be this monolithic thing that always responds to the same stars. That's a really reductive way of looking at the black audience.

I am not the 'Count' that has been portrayed in the media.

A lot of NFL guys are misunderstood.

Sonnen always appeared as the nice guy, consoling his fighters, while my scenes were all of me with ugly face. It was biased.

You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.

One time, I went to an audition, and I stated my name, and the lady was like, 'Oh, that name sounds really familiar. I've seen you on TMZ.' Her first perception of me was what she had heard.