Kate Spade Quotes

My reality is the misconceptions about me.

It's not that you make a psychopath. They are - more likely, they come out that way, and they show their stripes over time.

There's stigmas attached to anything that makes you, in the public's eye, seem weak. So of course, you know, you're in a business where your image, and the way people perceive you, you are taught, is important.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.

I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg".

People do seem to think that I'm going to be some wicked witch, and then they're always surprised to find out I'm just a little clumsy nerd.

I'm OCD beyond comparison.

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.

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

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

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

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

I have OCD mixed with ADD; you try living with that.

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.'

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.

It's funny because ever since 'American Idol,' people look at me without makeup and think I'm 15 years old - they think I'm really young and quiet and shy, and that I've never been in a relationship and have never been in love or anything.

We have funny ideas about how people in mental institutions act. We think of drooling and people going booga-booga and climbing the wall. These are exceptional cases.

People don't realize a lot of things about me. A lot of things, they don't know.

People have a certain mindset about me, they know me to be a very serious person as I don't party much nor am I overtly active on social media but there is more to me than what is imbibed in their minds.

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 see the point of Twitter, so I write a lot of stuff to mess with people. But because I used to do dumb things on the court, people think I'm dumb in regular life. But once people meet me, they feel dumb themselves.

Almost every day, people will say to me some version of, 'You're so much nicer in real life.' I guess I come across as not nice.

The impression that is out there about me is that I'm really hard-nosed, but the people who really know me, know that I am a soft touch.

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.