J. K. Rowling Quotes

When I met people they said, 'You do look like a hobo, but you smell really good.'

Looks matter a lot, and it has always mattered. We always judge. I have not only been on the receiving end, but I have also judged others.

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.

We all know that looks matter. What most of us don't understand is just how much looks matter and how difficult it is for us to ignore a person's appearance when making a social judgment.

Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

People have such an immediate judgment of me because I have tattoos or because my hair is sometimes crazy.

You meet people, and you realize that you can never judge a book by its cover.

I think people can be quick to judge. The people that know me, they know what I am like.

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.

I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.

It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

Look at my face. Does it look like I can take a good hit?

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

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

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

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.

You judge people as you meet them.

If something happens that reinforces your stereotype, it’s a big deal.

When you encounter people in life - like a chance encounter at a bar or wherever you happen to be - you make these incredibly quick, quite intricate decisions about people based on very small amounts of coded information. We're good at that.

Ironically, heavier comedians, actors, and the characters they play are actually more sympathetic, and easier for audiences to identify with, than the svelte.

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.