Top 121 Misunderstood Quotes

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

I always feel like I’ve been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don’t really care about.

I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It’s a great dynamic.

Sometimes our passion will motivate us to say things that can easily be misunderstood.

I’ve always felt really misunderstood because I got a lot of energy, and I never conformed to a certain path.

The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There’s this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton.

Making games look more photorealistic is not the only means of improving the game experience. I know, on this point, I risk being misunderstood, so remember, I am a man who once programmed a baseball game with no baseball players. If anyone appreciates graphics, it’s me!

Transgender people really are misunderstood.

I think snakes are misunderstood. Everyone is scared of them. I can really relate to them.

I have always been misunderstood.

I have always been confident in my abilities, always had my faith in God, always expressed myself, but when you are a young player, sometimes you get misunderstood.

I think I’m a director that is very easily misunderstood.

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.

Being Christlike guarantees that you’ll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it’s like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected.

Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.

The character we’ve always thought of as the Wicked Witch of the West is a green girl who’s actually very good, misunderstood, and trying to make her way in the world. She’s an outsider looking in, wanting to be loved. That’s a universal experience that everyone’s felt at some point in their lives.

Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

I have always been communicative. I can’t help it if I have been misunderstood. Sometimes, people don’t like straight answers.

The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn’t really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.

It’s great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn’t want anything to do with us.

Being misunderstood – that’s the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.

I’m probably one of the most misunderstood people in the league.

Football players are misunderstood. They aren’t the dumb jocks people think they are.

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’ve seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.

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 know what it is to be misunderstood.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

People look at me weird because I’m a Howard Stern fan, but he’s very misunderstood. It’s the first thing I do when I get in my car at a tournament – just pray that I get Howard 100 on Sirius or XM.

The most misreported and misunderstood thing about the tea party is its political leanings. The tea party has no political leaning. It stands straight for limited government, low taxes, and liberty for all.

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.

Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her, and I could see how she could be misunderstood by a lot of people, but she is really passionate about her art, and that’s something I really admire about her.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

I feel I’m often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it’s frightening to them.

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood – probably because most people don’t know how to cook them properly.

I’m a black man in America, so I’m going to be misunderstood.

Have I felt misunderstood by Music Row at times? Of course.

‘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.

A lot of NFL guys are misunderstood.

The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They’re always misunderstood, but they’re the ones who are standing up for human rights.

We all have our prejudices, and we may or may not be aware of them. Sometimes people walk by me and give me a wider berth. It happens. I wear hoodies all the time because my head gets cold. Something innocuous can be misunderstood.

My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time.

I’ve always felt misunderstood. Growing up, it’s been my word against the teachers’ or my parents’ word, and nobody would ever listen to me.

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.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.

I’m so 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.

In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.

I don’t want to be loved. No interest in being loved whatsoever. Actually, I don’t mind being misunderstood either.

I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That’s not my family’s fault; it was my perception.

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.

The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what ‘Rookie’ is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.

Eggplants are finicky, complicated, and often misunderstood. If you know how to treat one well, then it shows that you have know-how and dedication.

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His ‘Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini’ was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven’t pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

Of course there are moments for everyone, and certainly for me, where you do feel misunderstood. You feel like you can’t really connect. You do feel like you’re alone in something.

The way I stand up to bullies is with kindness and love. Because I think that’s what they really need. They’re misunderstood and probably really upset themselves.

The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.