Unfair Characterization Quotes

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.

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.

This perception that the only people that come to Crown are helpless victims and we are just sitting there preying on them, you know, I reject that absolutely and that does upset me. And I think that that is, you know, that is a spin line from the latte set, which is completely wrong.

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.

I love Crowley for being an audacious man at certain point in time. I think he's greatly misunderstood. He was a good guy, but he was portrayed as an evil man, and he wasn't.

A lot of unpredictable things happened in the Republican party, but I think the notion that we're gonna demonize Donald Trump or we're gonna mischaracterize him is completely unfair.

I don't portray a terrorist. The American fans label me a terrorist. It doesn't matter what I claim to be: in their eyes, I am whatever they say I am despite the fact that I'm not committing any 'acts of terror.' I ask you, how am I portraying a terrorist? Because I look like a Muslim?

It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.

It irks me when I read the narrative that 'Dwane is salty.' I can't say anything right.

Redheads get so stereotyped. You're either exotic and wild or totally Victorian.

Is typecasting really a problem?

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat bookish makes me a geek. That's fine; there needs to be a shorthand, but there are important geek traits that I don't really share.

People think I'm Snow White... the most boring person in the world!

When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.

People generalize music by how you look, and I don't like that.

For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.

Young people are often portrayed in a very negative and stereotypical manner.

A lot of people think I'm just an athletic thug.

I resent ever being stereotyped.

A lot of people label me as not a defender for some reason. I don't know why.

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

Sometimes you become the person people try to pin you into a corner to be, which is not really fair.

Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.

I don't like that I'm made out to be this evil person, who needs to be shot down and conquered.