Satchel Paige Quotes

I think people have a warped sense of who I am.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

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.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

I think people always misjudge me.

Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.

I don't want people to think I'm a wrestler.

A lot of people don't believe I was a soldier. They look at my luscious hair and wacky bow-tie collection and immediately put me down as some kind of supernatural geek.

My reputation precedes me all the time, but I'm not the monster people think I am.

I've only ever been mistaken for myself. People draw a lot of comparisons to all of the round-faced, mustached men of entertainment that make me cringe and sick to my stomach about how the world really sees me and they're right.

No one can believe I might have a brain. Because I'm really tall, I'm really blonde, I have big muscles, and kill people for a living. There you go. If anybody's going to be assumed to be stupid, it's me. I don't know what my IQ score is, but I did study for five years at college. And I'm proud of my chemical engineering degree. I haven't done anything with it, but it's a card up your sleeve for later in life. It's nice to have, just in case.

It's hard when you look a certain way. I look All-American, sweet, girl-next-door, so naturally those are the parts that are going to land on my doorstep.

When people think about me, that's all they think: 'He's crazy. He's psycho. He's this.' No, that was just my blog; that was Agent Zero; that was my persona that I was putting out there. And eventually, that all caught up with me.

People would expect me to be this ditzy, bubblegum-pop girl. I was selling myself short.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

People think I don't have substance and I'm just another pretty face.

People see me as something I'm not.

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

When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's this idea that because I'm black, I just look a certain way.

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.