Jane Pauley Quotes

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.' So I'm at the level of fame where people kind of know who I am, but they confuse me with other people.

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

I think people have a misconception of me, period. My life has been a whirlwind sometimes, but it's different to what people think. I definitely feel like there's a misconception about me and who I am.

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

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.

People have linked me to a lot of people. But people also project what they want to see for you.

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and they're usually 98 percent wrong.

Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.

I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

When I was younger, everyone thought I was Courteney Cox.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

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

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

Sometimes with the Palins, it's exactly what it looks like.