Ryan Fitzpatrick Quotes

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

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

Asking someone in advance not judge you, is like asking someone in advance not to smell you.

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.

The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.

People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

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.

The pushback I get is, 'He's a hedge fund guy.' Full stop. Some places, that can be a badge of honor. In others, it's almost a term of derision.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

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

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

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

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

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.'

Respect can be as elusive as the unicorn. I know something of this because I write books that are set in the Middle Ages, and the historical novel is often seen as the unwanted stepchild in the fictional family. I know even more about respect - or the lack thereof - because I live in New Jersey.

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.

You judge people as you meet them.

Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

Some people remember me for my color; some people remember me as a friend.

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.

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.