Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

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.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

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

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

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

People always meet me and go, 'You're so much cooler than I thought you'd be,' and I'm like, 'What did you expect me to be like?'

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And The Whale.' But I think that's par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real.

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.

I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

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.

People read things on Google, and they have these perceptions, these misconceived perceptions of who you are. At times that hurts, because they really don't know who I am.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

People think, 'Oh, I don't need to worry about him,' and they underestimate me because I am a rapper.

I haven't changed, but people's perception changed.

I have people tell me all the time, 'I was expecting you to be mean.' Why is that? Because you saw me in a movie? That's acting.

I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.

There will always be people that will have assumptions about you, about my character, my personality, or that I might put on a show of being gay or something, or that I play up stereotypes or anything like that. It's always funny to me that those people are typically the people that know me the least.

Because I am a bad girl, people always automatically think that I am a bad girl. Or that I carry a dark secret with me or that I'm obsessed with death. The truth is that I am probably the least morbid person one can meet. If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.