Anish Giri Quotes

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

If you think I'm a young boy singing these songs, dope. Run with that.

I am not what you see and hear.

I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

I was the all-American face.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

It’s not only what you do in politics. It’s what you appear to do.

I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.

Things are not always as they seem.

Kimbo Slice the man, you watch the YouTube videos of this guy in backyards, and they start fighting and you think this guy's a thug. You think he's a bad guy, you have this perception of him and then you meet him, it isn't true. It's the exact opposite. He's a really good guy.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

I think there's a misconception that chess players are all total nerds. Well, I guess they are.

Define better with that guy. Not all fangs and raaaaar.

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.

He shook his head and eyed Roarke. "You don't look like a cop." "I'm not and thank you for noticing.