Anthony Kiedis Quotes

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

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

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about.

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.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And The Whale.' But I think that's par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real.

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in.

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.

I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

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

When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard.

I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.

I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!