Amy Lee Quotes

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

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

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

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.

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.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

I had the traditional print view of TV journalists: Those are pretty people who get paid a lot of money and don't do any work. It turned out I was wrong.

All the people know Tomba, but not the real Alberto.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

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

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

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

My reality is the misconceptions about me.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don't know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

There was an article about me once, and the first line was, 'It's good to be a gangster.' Well, I'm not a gangster. I'm an actor.

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.

People often confuse visibility with a lot of other things. Sometimes I become a proxy for things that just aren't true about me. People will say, 'DeRay got millions of dollars in grants.' That's just not true... I'm broke.

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

I think people have a warped sense of who I am.

It's just crazy the way people portray me.