Casey Affleck Quotes

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

It's hard to get the downtrodden working-class wifey sometimes because 'You don't look like it'. Well, that's weird because I grew up on a scheme in Paisley. But everyone's got a viewpoint about what you should look like, and it's tainted by prejudices and assumptions.

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

People label you the way they know you best.

A lot of people call me gay because they don't see me with anyone.

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something.

If something happens that reinforces your stereotype, it’s a big deal.

Manbags are only acceptable if you are Italian, French, or gay.

I think that people are going to think of me however they want to think of me, whether it's female or gay or cancer or funny or unfunny.

Chicago - it's the Midwest, and the people are not as tough or not as edgy as they are in New York.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

When you talk about professional footballers, rightly or wrongly, people often already have an idea in their head about what they're like; they'll paint a picture before they've met them.

You know, as far as public perception goes, if you get seen with some people one time, everyone thinks you're in that group.

I just want people to know that I'm a good person, and I'm not a thug like everybody thinks I am.

Just because a girl wears short skirts and smokes and drinks, she's not easy!

People pass a lot of judgment about each other in India, and that is a tendency I don't like.

I think it's very hard to shake what people first think of you straightaway.

I think people can be quick to judge. The people that know me, they know what I am like.

Texas is more laid back, like Denmark is. So it was easier to adjust to that than to Los Angeles or New York for me.