It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.
Judd Nelson

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.
John Shirley

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.
Eugene Ormandy

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Sofia Kovalevskaya

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin

Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
Ian Hamilton Finlay

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
Elias Canetti

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
Denis Diderot

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A. J. Liebling

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Simone de Beauvoir

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
Randall Terry

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
James A. Michener

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
Stephen Rea

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
John Ashbery