DeRay Mckesson Quotes

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

People don't get it; they think I'm rich. I'm not! I have no money.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and they're usually 98 percent wrong.

Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.' So I'm at the level of fame where people kind of know who I am, but they confuse me with other people.

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.

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.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

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

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don't know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

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.

It doesn't make it any easier that people form opinions and make judgment calls and think I'm something that I'm not or do things that I don't.

The 'Celeb Juice' job was never mine - people just guessed - but it was quite funny to watch the rumours.

I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.

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

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

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.

You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

I feel like there is always a rumor that I'm dating someone that I never met before. People have their judgments and ideas of who I am, and they know nothing.