Jamie Wyeth Quotes

Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.

My last name is good and bad. It's great from an opportunity standpoint. The bad news is that you're prejudged often.

One time, I went to an audition, and I stated my name, and the lady was like, 'Oh, that name sounds really familiar. I've seen you on TMZ.' Her first perception of me was what she had heard.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent.

Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

I know what kind of person he is so they can say whatever they want.

People sometimes approach me tentatively or suspiciously because of my father's reputation as a world-class negotiator, as if they think I'm about to take advantage of them. As if I know something I'm not letting on.

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.

It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

My reality is the misconceptions about me.

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.

People always brand me as this person who is anti-Brady, and I don't think that I ever have been, except that occasionally I would like to talk about something else that I'm doing.

People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.