Appearances Deceiving Quotes

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

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.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing.

I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

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.

My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's.

I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

You meet people, and you realize that you can never judge a book by its cover.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

Sometimes the things I do look effortless, but it's not like that. It's very difficult, but because of my style, I make it look easy.

The average person can look at someone in public life and say they have it all, but they might be struggling. Or you may think another person has more apparent challenges, but she's deeply grateful for her life. I don't think anyone can judge what having it all means for someone else.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

The original theme of 'Beauty and the Beast' is don't judge a book by its cover. Love what's inside.

I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.

I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.