Miranda Hart Quotes

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

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

I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.

I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

I use two million Twitter followers as a tool. The reason I have Twitter is so people can get to know me as a different person other than Dwight. I just realized all of the sudden like everything thinks I'm Dwight. They think that I'm Dwight from the office and that I'm this kind of annoying, difficult, nerdy, creepy guy and they don't know Rainn Wilson - although I'm a little bit nerdy, annoying and creepy. I'm not as much as Dwight Schrute.

People just - they don't really know me. They see me on "The Simple Life," they think that's really who I am.

There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.

The fans always ask me, 'Is Si that crazy in real life?' and I said, 'No, hey, he tones it down for television.'

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

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

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

People seem to sometimes have a difficulty drawing that line between the character and the person.

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

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

But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.

I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

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

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.