Shemar Moore Quotes

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

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.

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 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.

You judge people as you meet them.

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

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

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

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

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.

We look at a person and see the person we want to see. I've had to deal with that my whole life, walking in a room and girls thinking I'm going to steal their boyfriends!

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

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

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.

People are like that, judging you before they know you.

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.

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

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'

People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely nothing about.

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.

We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion.

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

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.

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