Quotes About Preconception

Je n'estimais pas que Jean T. m'avait traitée avec mépris. Pour lui, j'étais passée de la catégorie des filles dont on ne sait pas si elles acceptent de coucher à celle des filles qui, de façon indubitable, ont déjà couché.

I look more like a professional golfer than I do an NFL football player.

I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones.

People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.

The less you know about the person, the more you fill in the rosiest details.

I don't want to be pigeon-holed as a firefighter.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.

People hear and see what they expect to hear and see.

Tal vez las rutinas nos cieguen y sólo veamos lo que creemos que debemos ver.

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Like when I fought Akebono - six foot eight, 490 pounds. Before the fight, everyone's like 'Man, you're crazy. You're out of your mind. How are you going to fight a guy that big, there's no way you can take him down. You cannot punch him out. You're out of your mind.' After the fight, everybody was like 'Oh come on, he's big and fat.' Really?

The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.

France was always a little scary to me. I had the preconception that France was a bit hoity-toity.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Satisfying as that 'Cabaret' role was, it is not the only thing I do. But Hollywood is somewhat limited in its perspective about what it is you do or don't do.

The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

I think a lot of people who didn't know my work before 'The Sopranos' think I came from the Jersey Shore, like they picked us out of the mall and put us on television.

Why did he always assume Mexico City would be like Phoenix on a smoggy day? Why did no one tell him it would be Madrid

With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

We look at a person and see the person we want to see. I've had to deal with that my whole life, walking in a room and girls thinking I'm going to steal their boyfriends!

Just because someone is affluent,it doesn't mean that he is also an intelligent; and just because somebody wears only inexpensive shirt & pant, it doesn't mean that he can't be a brilliant.

You know, I'm a good guy. I think people look at me in a different way until they talk to me or get to know me.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.