Cam Gigandet Quotes

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.

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

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

People have their image of you or their ideas about who you are, and it can be frustrating.

Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.

I don't want people to think I'm a wrestler.

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.

People often think I've played the villain more times than I have.

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

People label you the way they know you best.

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

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.'

People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.

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.

When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered parts in a suit and a collar and tie. It just so happens I wear them reasonably well.

I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time.

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

People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.

I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

There's probably some misunderstanding of who I am and how I roll.

I don't want everyone to think I'm just the girl who acts.

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.