Michel Houellebecq Quotes

People label you the way they know you best.

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

I don't know that any of us can control our own image. We are what other people see.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

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.

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.

I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am.

I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent.

Everyone says I'm intense, or I'm mad, or I play bad guys. I don't see any of that.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.

When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered parts in a suit and a collar and tie. It just so happens I wear them reasonably well.

It’s not what you are that counts; it’s what people think you are.

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 just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

I can't control what people think about me or how they choose to remember me.

I don't know what people think of me.

I don't know why I have been branded a glam doll.

I think people can be quick to judge. The people that know me, they know what I am like.

I believe I had an unfair reputation. If people think I was a bad kid, I was a bad kid to them. But people close to me know I'm not.