Madonna Ciccone Quotes

I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.

I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

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

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.

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 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.

We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes.

Almost every day, people will say to me some version of, 'You're so much nicer in real life.' I guess I come across as not nice.

I don't understand what people's fascination is with [our] relationship. If we're in the same city, we go out... Sometimes when I'm in L.A., I stay at his [Ben Affleck's] house. But it's not what people think. We're not together, I swear on my life.

The problem with my balloon collection is that people always think there's a party. Settle down. It's not a party. It's just balloons.

Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome.

I wanted to show the real side of me because of the unfair things that people said about me, but I realized that it was impossible and tried to think of why people thought of me in that manner.

I'm pretty private as a person - people generally think they know more about me than they do, because I gregariously advertise what I want known. So it pains me to think people might feel they have an insight into my personal matters, which they most certainly do not.

People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I'm the same, when in reality I'm not.

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.

Cos people think I'm on drugs and I'm not. I'm really quite... Just a bit of coffee. When I take drugs I start going, Oh, would you like insurance?

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

When people come up to me expecting me to be just like what they thought a Beatle would be, they're disappointed. I never was a Beatle, except musically. I don't think any of us was. What is a Beatle anyway? I'm not a Beatle or an ex-Beatle or even the George Harrison. I'm just a man. Very ordinary.

Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.

The plan is not what you think.

What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?