Matthew Bright Quotes

Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

Don't assume I'm dumb because I wear a suit and tie.

We should not be frightened by appearances.

First appearance deceives many.

Don't judge a book by its thickness either.

I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.

I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.

My Internet friends who I play games with say, 'This guy's a fighter?' I'm the last person they expect to be a fighter.

I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.

You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look.

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

It’s not what you are that counts; it’s what people think you are.

You can't go by what things look like on paper.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

I'm a huge walking oxymoron. People think they're going to get something that's a lot different from what they get.

I tell people all the time, 'Don't be fooled, because I am a man by day.'

The 'Raining Gold' video naturally took on one of the messages behind the song, which is you should never assume anything about someone or a situation just because it looks a certain way on the surface.

You look at me: you see the tattoos, and I ride a motorcycle.