Richard Belzer Quotes

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

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

You know what, I've always been a smarty-pants, and the only thing that goes wrong now is that people know that I play a doctor on TV and so they quickly call me out on the fact that I really think I am a doctor.

It annoys me when people can't differentiate between the character and the actor, which is a little bit silly.

When Miranda first started becoming popular, not many people knew who she was. People were confused by her. They thought she was a real person. I got a lot of interesting responses.

People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.

I was not a Mouseketeer, but a lot of people think I was.

Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.' So I'm at the level of fame where people kind of know who I am, but they confuse me with other people.

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

If I book a table at a pub, or I've got an appointment at an optician's or something, I'll walk in and I'll say, 'This is Tom Jones here,' And they'll go 'Awww, I thought it was gonna be him.' They think it's gonna be the real guy. I've been ridiculed a lot throughout my life for it.

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.

A lot of people think that I'm one of the women from 'Broad City' - and I'm just not.

People think my name is Morpheus. Many times, people will say to me, 'Morpheus!' and I will complete the sentence by saying, 'is not my name!'

I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

Since Kate Middleton came around, some people think I'm related to her, but unfortunately, there's no connection.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.