Edith Wharton Quotes

Like the Bond girl, there's a stigma attached to being a 'Dhoom' girl. You have to look pretty good, and people are going to judge you.

When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.

People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.

We all know that looks matter. What most of us don't understand is just how much looks matter and how difficult it is for us to ignore a person's appearance when making a social judgment.

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

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am.

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

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

People have such an immediate judgment of me because I have tattoos or because my hair is sometimes crazy.

It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then?

I've actually enjoyed my time in L.A. more than a New Yorker is supposed to.

One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you.

When you have a cute outfit on and your makeup looks amazing, the first thing people comment on is your image. When you don't wear makeup, you hear things like, 'Oh wow, you look tired,' or, 'You're so brave for not wearing makeup!'

Sometimes people think that I'm maybe pretentious or just weird, a fraud, or fake, because I have a formal education and speak properly and give people respect.