Laura Jane Grace Quotes

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

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

You judge people as you meet them.

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

It's interesting how when you walk into a room in LA there's a sense of what you walk in, as is sort of what you can do. So I spent a lot of time choosing different things to hopefully show people that maybe that's not the case.

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

It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked instead of what I could do.

The 'Raining Gold' video naturally took on one of the messages behind the song, which is you should never assume anything about someone or a situation just because it looks a certain way on the surface.

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?

I judge by appearances. People tell me I shouldn't.

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!

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

I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody.

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

If you're not careful people will judge you based on these appearances and they will pigeon hole you that this is the person that you are. Your shy, your aggressive, your this type or that type and you lose the control of the dynamic, they become the ones that determine who you are. A powerful person never loses control of the dynamic they are in someway in control.

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.