Quotes About Preconceptions

I used to think that Bollywood is a place where actresses are required to expose. I didn't want to act in films.

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

You can tell a lot about a woman by her email signature. Actually you can't but for some reason people do anyway.

Tonterías, niña. Ninguno es gay cuando le acercas la mano al grifo. En su día yo curé a unos cuantos.

And here I thought you were open-minded." "I'm not," she said

I don't think men approach me for intellectual conversation.

Ne znam kako to objasniti... Aroha je prelijepa i nježna kao an?eo, ali ne doima se ni po ?emu osobom kakvu sam mislio da poznajem.« »Onda je tvoja greška bila pomisliti da nekoga poznaješ prije no što si ga upoznao.« »Kako?« »Došao si do Arohe natrpan vlastitim filtrima, o?ekivanjima i prethodno razra?enim idejama. Tako je nemogu?e voljeti.«

Ca s? g?se?ti trebuie s? te la?i condus. Cât timp te iei dup? idei preconcepute, vei fi incapabil s? vezi ce se afl? exact sub nasul t?u.

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.

I think the way WWE Studios is going now - they're going away from action, doing more drama, more comedy - it will open a lot of people's eyes. Because a lot of people see big guy, big frame: action superstar. We've proven, especially with 'Legendary,' that that is not always the case.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

You see people, you judge. It's just the human thing to do - good or bad, it's a fact. Like when you get a coffee at Starbucks and the person is rude to you. My mom always says, 'Yeah, but you don't know what kind of day they're having.' You don't know the back-story, and that's why it's so fun to be an actor and to get into the back-story.

People attach too much to the idea of being a model, that you can only be a certain way to have done it. You will always be dealing with it. You're an actor who used to be a model who never trained; there are not many directors queuing up.

I didn't think my success from film was going to translate at all, musically. In fact, it worked against me.

It is notable that when she is not condemned for being too bold and masculine, Cleopatra is taken to task for being unduly frail and feminine.

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. —Leo Tolstoy, 1897

I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

If you do come across 'Sanctus' in a bookshop, please see past the cross on the cover and the sinister outline of a monk and just read the first page and make your own mind up. If it's still not for you, then that's fine; just put it back and walk away.

I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.

I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.