Amy Adams Quotes

There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.

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

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

You can tell a dumb guy a mile away.

I think people underestimate because I'm the rap guy, I'm a crazy guy, screaming all the time. But that doesn't mean that I'm not intelligent.

I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg".

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

People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright.

Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

You judge people as you meet them.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

Stereotypes and perceptions have their real effects.

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

We all judge people.

Maybe you don't know who a person is just based on the way they dress. I know that's a really simple thing you're supposed to be taught really young, but sometimes you can forget.

I know I can play, but people who haven't seen me and look at me on a football pitch think, 'He's tall, and he's there to head the ball.'