Irvine Welsh Quotes

You should never assume about someone.

People think because I'm shaped this way, I'm scandalous

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

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

You judge people as you meet them.

We all judge people.

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.

The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals.

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

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

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

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

Never judge a person if you don't know him.

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.

People still make all sorts of assumptions about me. I've just gone past the point of caring.

People are quick to pigeonhole you.

I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.

People always put you in a box as a rapper, especially when I get up on a panel and start speaking, and I start speaking when I got some sense. They're like, 'Oh, well, I didn't expect him to have sense.'

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 unfortunate how people assume so much about your life based on the work you do.

We all have perceptions or boxes that we put each other in.

People make conclusions about somebody before they actually get to know someone.