Therese Fowler Quotes

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

I think that I am misunderstood because people perceive me to be a certain way because I am generational. They expect me to be entitled and expect me to have things early on. I think people misconstrued that honestly.

People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD.

Before I came to Bollywood, lot of people told me that here things are not very professional, but I've had no such experience.

People make conclusions about somebody before they actually get to know someone.

From the first time I saw them, I knew they weren't just five dirty little boys from Liverpool without an education.

People will put me in whatever box they feel the most comfortable having me in, and nothing I can do will change that.

You walk into a room and there's already judgment. You know, like football players can't act or you're going to come in and be stiff.

There's no religion in this country that is more misunderstood, mis-categorized, and misidentified than Islam.

A lot of NFL guys are misunderstood.

The way that China has been described in Western narratives makes it hard to tell a story that will escape the stereotypes and allow people to perceive it fresh.

For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat bookish makes me a geek. That's fine; there needs to be a shorthand, but there are important geek traits that I don't really share.

The way you see me on 'Jersey' is a snapshot, and you can't judge from a snapshot.

I have people tell me all the time, 'I was expecting you to be mean.' Why is that? Because you saw me in a movie? That's acting.

One time, I went to an audition, and I stated my name, and the lady was like, 'Oh, that name sounds really familiar. I've seen you on TMZ.' Her first perception of me was what she had heard.

Before joining the industry, my impression of Kannada films was red and yellow outfits, hilarious sets, and dance movements. But I'm glad I'm wrong.

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for.

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".

Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

People do seem to think that I'm going to be some wicked witch, and then they're always surprised to find out I'm just a little clumsy nerd.

You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about.

No one can believe I might have a brain. Because I'm really tall, I'm really blonde, I have big muscles, and kill people for a living. There you go. If anybody's going to be assumed to be stupid, it's me. I don't know what my IQ score is, but I did study for five years at college. And I'm proud of my chemical engineering degree. I haven't done anything with it, but it's a card up your sleeve for later in life. It's nice to have, just in case.

I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.