John Gordon Sinclair Quotes

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

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'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.

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

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

One time, I went to an audition, and I stated my name, and the lady was like, 'Oh, that name sounds really familiar. I've seen you on TMZ.' Her first perception of me was what she had heard.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

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

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

Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

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.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

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.

You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.

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

Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.

I think it's very hard to shake what people first think of you straightaway.

I don't want people to think I'm a wrestler.