Madison Beer 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.

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

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie.

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

People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and... I'm not really.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

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

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

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.

A lot of people think I'm naturally confident. I am not naturally confident!

I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.

Whenever there's heavy-duty emotional work to be done, they call me. As for playing the completely off-the-wall, sexy, gorgeous lady that I am - no, they don't think of me.

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

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

I think people have a different image of me because, you know, they portray me with the idea that models are stupid and dumb; like, 'She can just be a model because she can just be a model - she's dumb and she can't do anything else.'

I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'

I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it's not who I am. Ya know?

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

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.