Joel Coen Quotes

When I've written for Bill Murray - I've written six films for him - people would read it and say, "Oh, that's so perfectly Bill." He'd read it and say, "Are you kidding? I can't say these words." So it's all about perception.

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.

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.

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'

The funny thing is that people see one film like 'Racing Stripes' or 'Ice Princess' and all of a sudden, slip me into this category of 'that's what she's always involved in.'

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion.

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.

The mistake we make with many people is that we assume that we have the model. It is a type of condescension.

It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.

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 kind of used to people trying to define me or, you know, lying about me.

I think people underestimate because I'm the rap guy, I'm a crazy guy, screaming all the time. But that doesn't mean that I'm not intelligent.

I think people can be quick to judge. The people that know me, they know what I am like.

I have blonde hair and blue eyes, and whenever I tell people I'm Greek, they don't believe me.

If someone labels you, it is very hard to shake it off.

We look at a person and see the person we want to see. I've had to deal with that my whole life, walking in a room and girls thinking I'm going to steal their boyfriends!

No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.