Charlize Theron Quotes

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.

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?

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.

Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight.

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.

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

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

I've never been a model; that's a misconception about me, and I don't know where it came from.

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.

Those who use 'Correlation is not the same as causation' as a magic incantation to dismiss all fact-using professions are fools holding a lit match in one hand and an open gas can in the other, screaming, 'One has nothing to do with the other!'

People take the little bit of information they're fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it's wrong.

I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.

People have linked me to a lot of people. But people also project what they want to see for you.

I don't want any gimmicks. The fact that people think that Whack is a gimmick is so crazy.

People will hear one thing and just run with it.