False Recognition Quotes

Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.

People say, 'You look like the girl who used to be on that show 'Angel' - they don't actually think I'm her.

I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

We know that misidentification is a major issue for us.

It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man

Frequently over the years, people have thought that they know me. Every character actor has this story, I'm sure. It goes like this: 'Um, do you play soccer?' 'Did you go to such and such church?' 'I knew you when you were with so and so... ' Then I go, 'Well, sorry...' and then they say, 'Wait a minute. Are you an actor?'

People see me, and they think they went to college with me; there's no immediate identification.

A lot of weird things happen to me. People call out to me on the street and I figure I know them, and I walk over. And then they start to talk about a movie, and I get so embarrassed. Sometimes they think I'm Lorraine Bracco or Laura San Giacomo or Marisa Tomei. I'm sure it happens to them all the time, too.

People just usually think I'm someone else. They'll look at me twice, and I'll just say, 'Not Ellen Page.'

The other day a woman came up to me and said, Didn't I see you on television? I said, I don't know. You can't see out the other way.

A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.