Harry Lloyd Quotes

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

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

When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard.

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 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.

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.

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.

From my situation as an African American person in the U.S., people may look at me and think a certain thing without getting to know me. I'm of Nigerian and Caribbean heritage. I went to Yale. What you see is not what you think you're getting.

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

Don't assume I'm dumb because I wear a suit and tie.

I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.

As soon as I would say I'm from Boston, people would just say, 'Naaaah!'

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

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

It's so funny because people always think of me as being a little bit country or assume that I am from the South - I don't know why!

Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.

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

The mistake we make with many people is that we assume that we have the model. It is a type of condescension.

People look at you, and they think they know you. They think they can place you in a certain category by what they think they know about you. But there's so much more to all of us than what we know and what we see at face value.

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?

After 'Gangs,' people thought that I couldn't speak a sentence in English or that I don't wear jeans or, you know, I am a city girl.

Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.