Leo Sayer Quotes

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

People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.

I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.

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.

I think that people are going to think of me however they want to think of me, whether it's female or gay or cancer or funny or unfunny.

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

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

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

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 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.'

My reality is the misconceptions about me.

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

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.

I never tried to emulate that New York rap style. What I do is a quasi rap. It's a honky rap, not a black rap. I find it puzzling that so many people have assumed I'm black.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.

When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

Everyone says I'm intense, or I'm mad, or I play bad guys. I don't see any of that.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

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