Fake Quotations

I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I'm kind of a nerd in that way. I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.

I miss family and friends, and I'd like to get back to work more in Scotland, and do more things like theatre and 'Red Road.' But over here you have the beach and the mountains and the climate. A lot of people diss L.A. as being all tinsel town, fake this and fake that, but a place is only as good as the people you know.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.

I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the time or always happy - I don't think it matters. If you're having bad day, show you're having a bad day. Don't try to put up something that's fake.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

I couldn't believe they were saying I put a horrible fake plastic bosom over scars I was trying to heal and keep it in place with a tight bra, which could stop my blood flow, just so I could fit into my clothes.

I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

Because I hate fake people and I always think I'm never fake.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

You fake something until you're good at it.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

I love CG - it's a great tool. I just don't think you should use it to replace reality; you should use it to augment and enhance. Do matte paintings, do composites, do replications, stuff like that, but you're taking something real and working with that as opposed to trying to fake it from scratch. The human brain can tell the difference.

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

One thing that you cant fake is chemistry.

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle-clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.

I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

I'm kind of weird - I don't get excited. Sometimes I fake that I'm excited just to make people happy.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

Fake tan is really difficult to get right. When I was younger, I'd always do it wrong. I'd leave it on and forget to wash it off. So I embrace being pale. I like getting a tan, but I also think that if you're going to do it, it has to be gradual. I just work the pale thing now.

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

It's my body. And I like my body. And I like my breasts. And no, they're not fake.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.

There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible.

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.

When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

I've always had a burning desire to help people and make a difference in the world. I didn't know how I could do that in modelling when it can be such a fake world. But my dad told me I could make a difference by being true to myself and teaching people what I've learnt about spirituality, health and nutrition.

It'll be nice not to have to use my fake IDs anymore.

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.

I use fake tan myself with a self tanning spray.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

Unless you can fake sincerity, you'll get nowhere in this business.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.

They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.

I can't get married. I can't fake sleep for 30 years.

You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.

I think that turning on the charm without being fake is really important.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

Basically, what I'm saying is there is nothing fake about what I do. I'm up-front, I'm real, I'm honest and I'm open with my feelings.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.