Ezra Furman Quotes

I've been pretending to be normal for so much of my life.

Don't we all just really try to fake it well?

I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.

I try and act like I'm all there. But I'm not!

People who suffer from anxiety are very good at hiding it. That can often be a contributor to the anxiety because the gap between the internal perception and the external impression can feel so large.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less strangers. That's not shy, that's wise. But I found that that when you had a journalist's notebook in your hand it wasn't really you, you see.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

I'm just very good at pretending.

It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and afterwards I'd always feel dreadfully depressed, kind of self-induced bi-polar disorder.

I've been pretending to be a man that I'm not my entire life. I've been pretending to be strong when I felt weak, confident when I felt insecure and tough when really I was hurting. And I can tell you right now that it is exhausting.

From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.

We're socially constructed to hide our flaws, and that breeds pain for a lot of people.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

I feel like I'm constantly trying to avoid awkwardness. I always try to pretend that the awkwardness doesn't exist, and then it just becomes more awkward.

I put up a front to make people think I had all of this confidence in myself, which I didn't.

I'm not confident at all. You just pretend you are.

I don't know, I don't know how to do anything. I'm just like, doing impressions of what I've seen other people do, and hoping no one knows that I'm actually just a little monster in a human suit making my arms go up and down.

Even if I'm not having the best time in a social situation, I'll force a smile.

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

One thing Jim McGreevey wants the world to know: Leading a double life as a gay man trying to appear straight was easy for him to pull off. He was 'good' at it. Not only that - it helped him become a better politician.

Not comfortable doing song and dance stuff as no normal person does in his/her real life.

If someone asks you if you're all right, and you say you are, that's usually a lie.

I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.

I could come in the gym to train with the boys and they'd think I was alright, but I'd go home and sit there crying.