Max Cannon Quotes

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.

You judge people as you meet them.

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

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

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.

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

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

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

When somebody walks into a room they give off a certain kind of vibe or whatever and at that point that's how you're going to cast them.

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

I think it's important to see that, as an audience member, because a lot of times you pass judgement on people, right off the bat, depending on whatever they're involved in or the people they surround themselves with, or something like that.

She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience.

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

We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.

When people walk in a room, the way they sit or they talk, that itself tells me a story.

For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

I've been misconstrued because I speak in a certain way. I find it obnoxious how it defines you, somehow limits your ability to understand the human condition. You can't be allowed near emotions; you play these curling-lipped, haughty characters. This awful label - 'the posh Toby Stephens' - I'm not posh!

I'm like anyone; I make a lot of my assumptions about actors I don't know from what I read about them. And then I'll find those judgments are often completely confounded when I meet them in real life.

The reality that everyone is stereotyped - every one gets typecast, so you have to work to get out of that.

One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you.

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

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.

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

We all judge people.