Curtis Jackson Quotes

It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly.

I can't find anything wrong with Ashton Kutcher. I think he's great. It's odd that in America there's a very mixed reaction to him. I think those that have only seen him on 'Punk'd' or 'That 70s Show' get him wrong. There's much more to him than those characters or that persona he plays in those shows.

Apparently, the things I do outside of the football are not taken as positives. I don't care, but sometimes it amazes me.

When I was playing good, nobody was saying I was playing good. When I was playing bad, I would be the first one on the front of the journal.

People think, 'Oh, I don't need to worry about him,' and they underestimate me because I am a rapper.

People have labeled the Process as whatever, tanking. I don't see it like that.

Everybody appears to look down on Bieber. No person able to write a grammatical sentence about Justin Bieber actually thinks him worthy of the sentence.

I've always been battling this perception people have of me, this character. It follows me around. 'Bubba the Bear' shows up when I'm checking into a hotel, when I'm on a plane. I can't get upset with people if they're only aware of a small part of my body of work. But inside I do.

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 that people are going to think of me however they want to think of me, whether it's female or gay or cancer or funny or unfunny.

People take the little bit of information they're fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it's wrong.

In the media, I always seemed to come across as someone who was poking fun at the Scots and their football. I guess the Scottish public needed someone to blame for their international defeats, and I fitted the bill perfectly.

I know people started suspecting whether I was a woman or a man. All the honour I earned - I lost.

It doesn't make it any easier that people form opinions and make judgment calls and think I'm something that I'm not or do things that I don't.

I kind of have a bad-guy reputation.

I had people think I was brilliant, then 'Half Baked' bricked. They literally look at me like a homeless person.

Around the world, when China has good results, people always think something bad.

Someone has to be the villain. I'm the most villainized player right now. People don't like me.

I just want people to know that I'm a good person, and I'm not a thug like everybody thinks I am.