Karen Bardsley Quotes

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

'Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be?'

Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.

I don't think anyone's ever thought I was a drug dealer.

Who on earth can feel any respect for a girl who chases?

I think it's fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst my family of farmers and paramedics and regular Americans, I'm kind of the sissy in my family.

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to 'graphic novel' and that disappears.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the Middle Ages, and the historical novel is often seen as the unwanted stepchild in the fictional family. I know even more about respect - or the lack thereof - because I live in New Jersey.

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.

Our keeper, Karen Bardsley, stakes out any penalty, any free-kick, any corner. KB knows the detail of how the person will take it.

Everyone has got a perception of what a footballer is and, because I am a certain size, that I can only play one way - as a battering ram.

The World Cup ball is very fast, and you need to think very quickly, when to punch and when to catch.

It's interesting in seeing when I'm talking to men in particular and telling them I'm an actress versus a director and the different turn the conversation will take when I say I'm a director. The level of respect is very interesting.

I just want people to know that I'm a good person, and I'm not a thug like everybody thinks I am.

A lot of people think I'm just an athletic thug.

I'm aware that De Gea is a good goalkeeper. He's had a great career, and he's been great over a number of years.

Goalkeepers are all the same.

I don't know why anyone would want to be a goalkeeper. It is a hard position to do well.