Matt Drudge Quotes

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.

People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am.

For a long time, I was portrayed as the Osama bin Laden of the Internet, and I really wanted to be able to tell my side of the story. I wanted to be able to explain exactly what I did and what I didn't do to people who thought they knew me.

I had the traditional print view of TV journalists: Those are pretty people who get paid a lot of money and don't do any work. It turned out I was wrong.

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

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

There was an article about me once, and the first line was, 'It's good to be a gangster.' Well, I'm not a gangster. I'm an actor.

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.

People get it twisted. They see the baseball stuff, and they don't see you as a human being. They see you as someone that just plays baseball.

It's kind of stupid that people think I'm just partying all the time.

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

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.

If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.

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

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

People think I'm a freak or something, but I'm actually a really normal guy.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in.

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

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

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