Gertrude Stein Quotes

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

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

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

For me, I've never really thought of myself as labeled as a shooter or whatever. People can say whatever they want.

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.

People label you the way they know you best.

I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent.

That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody.

People only see you as your last role, so it's hard to break out of that.

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

There is an image of me in France that is a long stretch from who I really am. I read about this girl who lives in grand hotels and has affairs with American actors - I don't recognise this girl at all. Sometimes it makes me depressed. Sometimes it makes me laugh. Sometimes I think, 'Gosh, that sounds nice, I'd love to be that girl.'

People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.