Bill Cosby Quotes

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

No one really knows me. People think they know me.

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.

For a long time, I was portrayed as the Osama bin Laden of the Internet, and I really wanted to be able to tell my side of the story. I wanted to be able to explain exactly what I did and what I didn't do to people who thought they knew me.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.

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.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

There was an article about me once, and the first line was, 'It's good to be a gangster.' Well, I'm not a gangster. I'm an actor.

I just want to be known for the work I do, not my personal life or what I'm wearing.

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

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

People often confuse visibility with a lot of other things. Sometimes I become a proxy for things that just aren't true about me. People will say, 'DeRay got millions of dollars in grants.' That's just not true... I'm broke.

Really, I have no idea how I'm perceived in the industry.