Debbie Rowe Quotes

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all.

Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.

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

It's a horrible thing to have someone pretend like they know what you're about and call you a fraud when they haven't given you a fair shot.

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.

Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.

I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.

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

The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

People hate me for whatever reasons they come up with, or they hate me because their friends said they should. What can I do about it? What can I do about people who look at things the wrong way? At the end of the day it's like, 'You're wrong, I'm just a skateboarder. How can I help you?'

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

I had the traditional print view of TV journalists: Those are pretty people who get paid a lot of money and don't do any work. It turned out I was wrong.

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

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

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

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

Preconceived judgments. I think we're all guilty of it. I judge other people even though I get judged myself. It's such a disease and gets spread so much through social media.

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