I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.
Anytime I've been photographed with a glass of champagne in my hand, it's really Red Bull.
I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.
I'm not trying to make everything this fantasy world about how I'm living this lavish life that I'm not really living.
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 people have a warped sense of who I am.
People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy.
People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.
The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.
Most of my career, people have the misconception about me as being threatening and scary, and having an intense look, but that's not the real me.
Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.
When I stepped into the industry, I was dealt this bizarre persona of being this sarcastic fashionista 'it girl' who is friends with loads of celebrities. That couldn't be further from the truth.
People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.
And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.
The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.
The movie portrayed me as this person who cussed every 10 seconds, and I don't cuss like that.
People always remark on how I'm not as tall as I look in film. I tell them about the time I saw Lassie on a studio lot, and she was this tiny scruffy dog. Film makes you larger than life.
People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
People assume that because you are on TV you must be a millionaire, but unfortunately it doesn't work like that.
Everyone thinks that Prince and I had a beautiful, romantic love affair, but we didn't. We just let people think that in order to promote 'Purple Rain.'
People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I'm as common as muck.
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
Almost every day, people will say to me some version of, 'You're so much nicer in real life.' I guess I come across as not nice.
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
