Ann Landers Quotes

Don't assume I'm dumb because I wear a suit and tie.

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.

No one can believe I might have a brain. Because I'm really tall, I'm really blonde, I have big muscles, and kill people for a living. There you go. If anybody's going to be assumed to be stupid, it's me. I don't know what my IQ score is, but I did study for five years at college. And I'm proud of my chemical engineering degree. I haven't done anything with it, but it's a card up your sleeve for later in life. It's nice to have, just in case.

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

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

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

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

He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.

I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.

Never judge a cover by its book.

You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.

There are assumptions made about the way you look. I'm always surprised when people don't think I'm smart.

I play dumb like Jessica Simpson plays dumb. But we know exactly what we're doing. We're smart blondes.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

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

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

As soon as I would say I'm from Boston, people would just say, 'Naaaah!'

People started saying, 'Oh you know, he's quicker than he looks', and I'm like, 'What does that mean? Do I look slow, or I'm not really sure what that means.

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

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look.

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

I always hear, 'Oh, she's really beautiful.' I'd die to hear, 'Oh, she's really smart.' I'm not as dumb as I look.

People look at you, and they think they know you. They think they can place you in a certain category by what they think they know about you. But there's so much more to all of us than what we know and what we see at face value.