Joseph Epstein Quotes

Things are not always as they seem.

People tend to think I'm a lot more earnest than I am.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

I often tend to think that things are not what they seem.

When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.

I am not as simple as I look.

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

I sometimes laugh at the fact that people say I have good style.

Anyone who thinks my life is cupcakes is all wrong.

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

I find it funny that I'm a pin-up.

People think I'm clever, which is hilarious. I'm like, 'When did this happen? People used to think I couldn't string a sentence together.'

I don't take my image seriously. I make fun of the fact that some people think I'm a romantic figure.