Boy George Quotes

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.

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

People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.

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

Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

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.

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.

Comedy is a terrible way to meet women. It's certainly a way to start talking to them, but they always have preconceptions about you.

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

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.

I don't see the point of Twitter, so I write a lot of stuff to mess with people. But because I used to do dumb things on the court, people think I'm dumb in regular life. But once people meet me, they feel dumb themselves.

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

When people first meet me, they think I'm going to be a mean guy or something. I guess I just need to prove that you can't judge a book by its cover.

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.

My mother said to me, 'Why do you have to call yourself a dyke? Why can't you be a nice lesbian?' 'Because I'm not a nice lesbian, I'm a big dyke.'

You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

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.

Never judge a cover by its book.

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

There's always this kind of odd idea that people would say, "Oh, do you know the Queen?" But really people are much smarter than that.