John Cho Quotes

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

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.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.

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

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

People often presume I'm from whatever country they're from. So Americans presume I'm American and the British presume I'm British. And they're surprised to discover I actually am Australian. And actually some Australians are surprised too.

I always laugh because people assume I love horror because I do a horror movie, but I'm not a huge horror fan.

All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person. Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations. I was a pretty difficult teenager.

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise.

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

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

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.

The reality that everyone is stereotyped - every one gets typecast, so you have to work to get out of that.

People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

People always put you in a box as a rapper, especially when I get up on a panel and start speaking, and I start speaking when I got some sense. They're like, 'Oh, well, I didn't expect him to have sense.'

When you come into this league, everyone tries to put you in categories - 'this is what he is' or 'this is what he can do.'

People who think they know me would be surprised that my whole life doesn't revolve around sex.

Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster.