Nigel Cole Quotes

I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.

America's popular heroes have seldom been its great thinkers, and even less its scientists. The success of TV's 'Big Bang Theory,' which seems to give the lie to this claim, is more the exception that proves the rule.

I spent years doing 'Star Trek' bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of people mocked it.

I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.

There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me.

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.

A lot of NFL guys are misunderstood.

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

The media can make anything true or untrue. So if you do 80 films and you play a bad guy ten times, then you're a bad guy, and then the media repeats that.

I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who don't like Robbie Williams but he is presented to the public in such a way that they have no choice.

Some people will always think I've got the eyes of Satan. Others will think I'm a TV god. People have the right to criticise.

I'd like to think that maybe the average person is rational, and they realise that I'm not this crazy monster that, at times, I've been perceived to be.

Nobody will tell you that you're typecast until your films aren't working; if it's working, they'll call it your 'zone.'

Whatever I do, if people see me in a certain light, then they will always judge me in that light. Their impressions and perceptions will never change.

I learned this through Iron Man - it really doesn't matter what I think about who he is because everybody has such a huge idea about what they think the guy is. You can't just rely on your instincts and your imagination, you have to match up with what the expectations are from the people.

From my years on 'Will & Grace,' you'd think I'm Madonna.

I think professional wrestling will always be a reflection of how society is.

All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.

Actually I love acting in commercials and I see no shame in that.

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.

My only experience with American things is through movies.