Wilfried Zaha Quotes

All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

People used to assume I was a serious/sad person because of my music for some reason.

I have a very big, loud personality and sometimes that can be taken wrong with people that I first meet.

I come across as being arrogant and dismissive, even if that is not the case.

I guess people think I'm aloof just because I don't talk much. I guess I'd think the same thing if I saw myself.

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

I feel like people believe I'm thinking a different thing than I am because I have this look about me.

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

I believe that a smile is the attribute of a positive attitude, both for yourself and the perception of others.

The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.

If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.

It was a cookie, not a crack pipe.

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.

Vee: And I'm not going to let you sit at home all afternoon with your sour face on. Nora: I don't have a sour face. Vee: Yes, you do. And you're wearing it right now. Nora: This is my annoyed face. You woke me up at six in the morning!

There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.