Machine Gun Kelly Quotes

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

I have had to answer questions like, 'But you don't look like lead material.' Now, I still don't know what 'lead material' looks like because everyone has eyes, a nose, and a face.

My last name is good and bad. It's great from an opportunity standpoint. The bad news is that you're prejudged often.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

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.

Being attractive and being credible can and do go together.

You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright.

Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

I do know that people treat me different with blonde hair than they do with red hair.

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.

We all judge people.

I'm not trying to prove anything. People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie. They don't really see the skills and the kind of player I am. That's why I get downgraded so much, because of something off the field.

Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.

It's assumed that light-skinned women have no problems or issues, but they are judged before you know who they are.

It's just sad that one's attitude is always speculated, even if you've not done something.

Being taken seriously was always the biggest challenge.

If someone labels you, it is very hard to shake it off.

I think it takes a little bit of time for people to take you seriously.

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

We take our endorsements seriously.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

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 really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.

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