James Packer Quotes

A lot of people think I'm just an athletic thug.

I believe I had an unfair reputation. If people think I was a bad kid, I was a bad kid to them. But people close to me know I'm not.

Let's say for instance people say, "He's a really totalitarian, strict guy, he's hard to work with or whatever." I don't think it's true, but people's perception of me leads that direction, like I'm a fundamentalist person. I end up having to spend extra time saying, "I'm not a fundamentalist." I have other stuff to do.

People who have a reputation for being evil are usually good.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

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.

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

I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don't think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it's awful to hear and read what is said of you.

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.

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.

Once you've been painted as something it's very hard, especially when you're young, to wash that off.

There are the guys that wear the white hats and they're painting the picture of someone to wear the black hat and they chose me - even though they don't really know me.

I never sold drugs. A lot of people used to think I was that dude but I never sold a crumb. I used to always be upset with that.

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

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.

A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.

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

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.

Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.

I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome.