Identity Mismatch Quotes

I'm this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn't match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.

I don't really look like I do in any of my films.

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

People think I'm a celebrity. I'm not a celebrity.

Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

It's kind of my biggest fear: thinking I know somebody I'm going to be, and then I don't. It's probably only happened to me once or twice, but that was enough for me to definitely not do a role unless I 100% can be that person.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

Apparently on the screen I look tall, ageless, and damned close to omniscient-delivering jeopardy-laden warnings through gritted teeth. But when people see me on the street, they say 'by God, this kid is 5 foot 5, he's got a broken nose, and looks about as foreboding as a bank teller on a lunch break.'

A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

British people are surprised that I'm British!

A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.

I look very different from how people expect me to be... Clearly they think I'm a great big fat viking.

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

Some fans understand who I am and why I do things, and then there are some fans that have formed an opinion that I don't feel is who I am.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.

There are few things harder than being born into the wrong body.

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

People are expecting me to still be fourteen years old. It cracks me up, especially when people see me walk by with my husband. They're like, 'What? You're married? You're not old enough to be married.' Thank you. I'm glad that you think that.

I don't feel uncomfortable in America, but every once in a while, I'm reminded that people don't see me the way I see me. It doesn't change my life, but it gives me a consciousness about it.

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

Just being thought of as a Christian is pretty annoying. Not that there's anything wrong with it. But just being told you're anything when you're not.