Johan Renck Quotes

I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.

A lot of people label me as not a defender for some reason. I don't know why.

For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.

Sometimes you become the person people try to pin you into a corner to be, which is not really fair.

I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.

A lot of people only see me as villains.

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

It sucks, being perceived as a person that you're not; it sucks being hated.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!

A lot of people think I'm snotty. So what? They never asked me out when I was serving cheeseburgers.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.

You never hear about a pit bull doing anything good in the media. And they have a stigma to them... and, in many ways, pit bulls are like young African-American males. Whenever you see us in the news, it's for getting shot and killed or shooting and killing somebody - for being a stereotype.

This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

The only thing that ever really bothers me is that a lot of people think I'm that girl who hates your boyfriend. I'm really not that girl. Some of my friends' boyfriends are my best friends.

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly.

I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that.

People think I'm Snow White... the most boring person in the world!

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.

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