Eleanor Catton Quotes

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

Not to harp on too much about Ma, but it's a misconception that she is formidable. She calls herself a patsy.

There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

People misunderstand me.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

When I was younger, everyone thought I was Courteney Cox.

A lot of people think, and Microsoft is happy to let them think, that all great things are invented by Microsoft. In fact, very, very little has been invented by Microsoft.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.

I have always been misunderstood.

I can't even get people to spell my name right in my own biography!

My biggest concern is people misunderstanding me.

Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself.

There's a big advantage in people underestimating you.

People think I'm clever, which is hilarious. I'm like, 'When did this happen? People used to think I couldn't string a sentence together.'

Shopify has been a perpetually underestimated company at every point of its history.

I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.

I think I'm pretty misunderstoood.

People around the NBA really think that I'm dumb or stupid. But people that know me know that I'm actually very intelligent.

I don't think the Lakers really knew me when they first drafted me. They just saw my name and my size and my stats. They just picked somebody because they had to.

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

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.