Misidentification Quotes

... it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence rather than the unknown effects of extra-terrestrial intelligence.

People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all.

People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.

I'm not a boxer, I'm a basketball player.

Some people say, 'Oh, you look just like the guy from 'Stranger Things.' And I'm like, 'I am the guy.' And they think I'm totally joking.

Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

People say, 'You look like the girl who used to be on that show 'Angel' - they don't actually think I'm her.

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges.

Everyone thinks I'm on 'Mindhunter!'

In Virginia all Geese are Swans

When I lived in New York, never in my life had I been more mistaken for another than David Chang.

The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them.

I did my best to hide by changing my name many times. But I was captured by the Chinese police. But because my Chinese was so good, they thought I was Chinese and released me. That was a miracle.

I have crazy friends, so a lot of times when we're out, people recognize me on the street, but they will yell, 'This is Cameron Boyce!' and just run! They do that. Then I'm in the middle of the street with people looking at me.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

I think people understand I'm not actually the real Thomas Jefferson.

My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'

I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

If you look at photos of the Gettysburg Address there's a guy off to the right who I think is Keith Richards.

When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

It wasn't Liza Minnelli. It was the woman I loved.