Willard Wigan Quotes

There is an unfortunate side effect of being a person of few words: Sometimes people will assume you are less intelligent than you are.

I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there.

I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.

If you tell me that the sky is red, I will look up.

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

You must see first before you can believe.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.

I can't help it if I make things look easy that some people think are difficult.

People who don't know me think I'm so serious. I'm a prankster; I like to have fun with the people who know me better.

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.

People still think I'm a bit of a buffoon - not really an athlete.

The two misconceptions of me are I didn't work hard, and that everything I made it look easy.

A lot of people know me, but they don't know me well.

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.

Not seeing is half-believing.

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still in doubt.

I think Abraham Lincoln said believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.

A man who saw a miracle would reject his eyes' witness, if those with him saw nothing.

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

I don't deny it," said Frodo, looking at Sam, who was now grinning. "I don't deny it, but I'll never believe you are sleeping again, whether you snore or not. I shall kick you hard to make sure.