Amanda Knox Quotes

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

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

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

I think people have a misconception of me, period. My life has been a whirlwind sometimes, but it's different to what people think. I definitely feel like there's a misconception about me and who I am.

There is an image of me in France that is a long stretch from who I really am. I read about this girl who lives in grand hotels and has affairs with American actors - I don't recognise this girl at all. Sometimes it makes me depressed. Sometimes it makes me laugh. Sometimes I think, 'Gosh, that sounds nice, I'd love to be that girl.'

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

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

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

I think people have a warped sense of who I am.

People have their image of you or their ideas about who you are, and it can be frustrating.

People seem to know more about me than I do.

People should see my work and think beyond what I am on daily basis, on Twitter, Instagram, or the perception they have of me in their heads.

People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I'm the same, when in reality I'm not.

How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you kissable, like feeling warm makes you coffee, like liking movies makes you a director. How utterly incorrect to think it any other way, a box of crap is treasures, a boy smiling means it, a gentle moment is a life improved.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

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 don't really know what my personality is anyway. I don't really have one.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.