John Wooden Quotes

When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.

Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am.

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.

My Internet friends who I play games with say, 'This guy's a fighter?' I'm the last person they expect to be a fighter.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

You immediately hear the word 'Merlin,' you think magic, you think adventure, excitement - you also think 'an old man.'

The only nickname I've ever had is Merlin, like the magician. I don't know why.

Merlin is, in the terms of the world of magic, one of the most intriguing and powerful characters.

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

I think everybody who sees me would think that I'm really scary or something. But I'm not!

If you think I'm a young boy singing these songs, dope. Run with that.

Some people really think I'm an ex-pro player.

Men still assume I must be like the girl I played in 'Emmanuelle.' John Wayne was never accused of killing people during his free time, but I'm forever stuck with the image of 'Emmanuelle.' The truth is, I should have got an Oscar for that role because I'm nothing like that woman.

I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg".