
“Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.”
Source: Twisted
As quoted in New York Times article "The Einstein Theory of Living; At 65 he leads the simplest of lives — and grapples with the most complex thoughts." http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00713FA3A58157A93C0A81788D85F408485F9 (12 March 1944)
Variants:
Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?
As quoted in The Dark Side of Shakespeare : An Elizabethan Courtier, Diplomat, Spymaster, & Epic Hero, p. 126 https://books.google.com/books?id=-5SxGKrTRUEC&pg=PA126 (2003) by W. Ron Hess
Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me.
As quoted in "The culture of Einstein" at MSNBC (18 March 2005) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7406337/
1940s
“Everybody told me to be a man. Nobody told me how.”
Source: Twisted
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“Nobody gives a crap about ethics. That’s why people like me will always be successful.”
Source: Company (2006), p. 335
"Pop Tarts: Victoria's Scarring Secrets: Teased for Being Too Skinny" http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314106,00.html, 30 November 2007, Fox News.
“Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you”
Variant: Haters are confused admirers who want to be like you.
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. VI.
Scientist wonders why nobody asks him about Dan David prize (2013)