Zitat des Tages über Falsch verstanden / Misunderstood:
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.
I like being misunderstood.
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.
Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.
If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.
Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.
American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood.
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.
There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.
For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.
Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.
Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.
I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.
I have always been misunderstood.
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
You can't improvise without a skeletal structure; you can't just go in and start talking. This is a very misunderstood craft because no one else makes movies like this.
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.
Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.
I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.
My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.
'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable.