Mike Huckabee Quotes

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.

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

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

There was an article about me once, and the first line was, 'It's good to be a gangster.' Well, I'm not a gangster. I'm an actor.

It's just crazy the way people portray me.

For a long time, I was portrayed as the Osama bin Laden of the Internet, and I really wanted to be able to tell my side of the story. I wanted to be able to explain exactly what I did and what I didn't do to people who thought they knew me.

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

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.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and they're usually 98 percent wrong.

So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me.

The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

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

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

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

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

The bad boy image is something given to me by the media. I have been in relationships earlier, even for as long as three years. I am not saying I am a saint. I am like any other guy, I guess. Unfortunately, every time I even meet a person, it is reported as a link-up.

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.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

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 think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.