Mark Strong Quotes

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

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

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

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.

I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.

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

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

Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd.

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered parts in a suit and a collar and tie. It just so happens I wear them reasonably well.

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 have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

You can tell a lot about a woman by her email signature. Actually you can't but for some reason people do anyway.

I think that people assume when they meet me that I'm going to judge what they're wearing.

Folks are astounded that 'judge' isn't a synonym for 'humorless Luddite.'

You can't just constantly judge a situation or a person because of what you're used to or how they look. They might turn out to be this sweet man who asks you what your dreams are. You know?

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

The ultimate lesson from my entire experience is you cannot prejudge human beings. You just can't. I don't care who they are, what their behavior, or what you've heard about. You have to be able to meet the person and talk with them, and even then, that's not even enough to prejudge them.

Maybe you don't know who a person is just based on the way they dress. I know that's a really simple thing you're supposed to be taught really young, but sometimes you can forget.

You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

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

There will always be people that will have assumptions about you, about my character, my personality, or that I might put on a show of being gay or something, or that I play up stereotypes or anything like that. It's always funny to me that those people are typically the people that know me the least.

I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try to work from.

One funny thing I realized is how many people had no idea that I was gay because they don't bother to look it up or ask.