Jonah Hill Quotes

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

The public me, the one named Elizabeth Taylor, has become a lot of hokum and fabrication - a bunch of drivel - and I find her slightly revolting.

Nobody who knows me has ever thought I was a racist, bigot, all of this stuff. All of a sudden I'm on the radio and I become one, if you listen to liberal critics. I'm a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. I'm a hater and all of this stuff. I'm none of those things and never have been. It's all because of my political views.

I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

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

Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

I think people have a misconception of me, period. My life has been a whirlwind sometimes, but it's different to what people think. I definitely feel like there's a misconception about me and who I am.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

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.

It's almost like living a double life where I'm in a limbo space where Amanda Knox, a real person, exists, 'Foxy Knoxy,' an idea of a person, exists, and I'm constantly having to juggle how someone is interacting with me based upon that two-dimensional person of me that has been in the public's imagination for so long.

It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.