The people who matter know me better than that. The rest-- I don't owe them anything. They see what they want to see.

[It ties back into his childhood, if he's being perfectly honest. The paparazzi spent months hounding him for photographs after his parents died, and Bruce... developed an attitude that allowed for coping with it. People would approach him on the street and ask about his parents, hoping for a reaction. Alfred actually punched one of them for it once.]

Besides, I've always found a certain value in being underestimated.