Marouane Fellaini Quotes

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

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

It's just crazy the way people portray 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.

A lot of people only see me as villains.

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

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

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

Relax. I am not the man I am portrayed to be by some.

I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.

People see me as something I'm not.

A lot of NFL guys are misunderstood.

I've always been battling this perception people have of me, this character. It follows me around. 'Bubba the Bear' shows up when I'm checking into a hotel, when I'm on a plane. I can't get upset with people if they're only aware of a small part of my body of work. But inside I do.

The thing that I come across is that people think that I might actually be super aggressive, want-to-fight type in real life. The irony is that that's just not true, at all.

So many times we're portrayed in ways that we don't want to be portrayed, in ways that make us seem so ridiculous.

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

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.

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

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.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

The diva tag just won't go away. I think that's because people want me to be like that. It makes it more interesting if I have thrown a phone at somebody or a water bottle. Sadly that's just not me.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

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

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.

When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.