Katey Sagal 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.

A lot of people thought I was gay.

People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

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

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.

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.

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.

Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.

I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.

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

If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it's assumed that I'm gay.

One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels.

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.

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

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

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 think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?