Eddie Marsan Quotes

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

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

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 saw my dad work hard and then would see and know his interest and intentions, and that wasn't necessarily the narrative you would see in the press.

For a long time, I was portrayed as the Osama bin Laden of the Internet, and I really wanted to be able to tell my side of the story. I wanted to be able to explain exactly what I did and what I didn't do to people who thought they knew me.

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had.

There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me.

Relax. I am not the man I am portrayed to be by some.

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'm not ashamed of my social media following, my Sports Illustrated swimsuit shoot, or the tough time I had in my LPGA debut, but these small facets of my life are easily manipulated by the Internet to get views, and they don't define me as a person.

It's almost like living a double life where I'm in a limbo space where Amanda Knox, a real person, exists, 'Foxy Knoxy,' an idea of a person, exists, and I'm constantly having to juggle how someone is interacting with me based upon that two-dimensional person of me that has been in the public's imagination for so long.

Take any celebrity - all we really know is what they choose to tell us or what they show us in public.

I am not the 'Count' that has been portrayed in the media.

They portray me as all these crazy things and I'm so not like that. I don't have entourages, I'm as normal as you can get in this lifestyle.

There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.

It's just crazy the way people portray me.

Filmmakers are stuck with my glamorous image. Even if I sit in track pants and a T-shirt, I will still look glamorous. That's the way I am. But there's more to me. I'm a real person.

Some people will never take Madonna seriously - just as many never took Marilyn Monroe seriously. Novelty images - especially that of a sex symbol - are hard to erase.

When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.