Crispin Glover Quotes

I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.

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.

Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.

I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

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

I think I probably have a creepy kind of scary quality. Otherwise, I wouldn't get jobs. But I also think it has a little bit to do with, you've done it a couple times, and then people see you that way.

People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.

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

I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.

I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.

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 was stuck with the dark glasses. They took all these pictures that went around the world. I guess once you become successful, you don't want to change anything too drastically.

You do something, like, something like 'Psych' for long enough, it's tough to shake up people's preconceptions of who you are as a performer.

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.

I am not that cute. However, because I had played so many cute characters, I am starting to be influenced by them.

I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.

I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public.

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

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.