John McGinn Quotes

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

Because of how I looked, there was definitely a prejudice against me. People didn't think I could play. I could see why: I weighed about eight stone and was six foot bleeding seven.

When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail.

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.

I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

Serbia is blamed in advance for everything.

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

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

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

I'd like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn't have a celebrity spokesperson because by the time somebody's schizophrenic they've lost all their teeth.

On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to be honest with you. I think they probably sound like us when they're in the house. It's how they keep people away from them.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

I think people have a different image of me because, you know, they portray me with the idea that models are stupid and dumb; like, 'She can just be a model because she can just be a model - she's dumb and she can't do anything else.'

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

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

Italians are a riffraff of desperate scoundrels, ex-convicts and jailbirds.

There is a misconception that I've experienced in my life about people that live in the South. I got sent away to school in Connecticut in the late Eighties, and kids were honestly asking me, 'Do people there wear shoes?'

In the media, I always seemed to come across as someone who was poking fun at the Scots and their football. I guess the Scottish public needed someone to blame for their international defeats, and I fitted the bill perfectly.

L.A. has always been hated on so much. I remember, the first time I went to New York, I was at jam sessions, and people would hear me and come up to me and be like, 'Oh wow, you're from L.A.? Really?'

I've never had that dream in my head: 'I want to play Bundesliga or Premier League.' I was a fan, but it was never the dream that one day I was going to make it, because a lot of people had told me already that I wouldn't.

When I first started working at Disney animation, I can't tell you how many people said to me, 'Oh, man, take a powder.' Nobody takes animated musicals seriously. I swear.

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 have said, 'Oh, but you don't look like you're from Manchester.' And I always want to ask, 'What the hell does someone from Manchester look like?'

People think, 'Oh, I don't need to worry about him,' and they underestimate me because I am a rapper.