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.

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.

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.

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.

You fake something until you're good at it.

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.

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

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

Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.

One thing that you cant fake is chemistry.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.

I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be the most genuine performer I can be.

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It's funny finding what's challenging about acting as you go.

I could wear makeup today, and one person would say it looks bland, another would say it looks fake, and another might tell me I look really natural. Everyone is convinced their opinion is the truth, and that's what I struggle against.

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.

I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.

For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.

When I started working out, it wasn't about weight loss; I was going through a really hard time and needed an emotional release. Once you start getting in the tabloids claiming you have fake body parts, then it's like, 'Okay, I made it. Now I'm really working out.'

I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from the '50s is really nice, hollowed out paper-mache food from old plays - the new stuff just looks too good.

I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable.

I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.

Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.

You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

I'll never try to put on a fake image. I'm just Zac.

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

I hate the whole concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable!

Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.

Guy Pearce played Mike in 'Neighbors'. I would fake illness to stay off school and watch the one P.M. show, and I would also watch it again when it was repeated at 5:25 P.M. Obsessed.

We felt like we had a good play where we could fake the run up the middle and draw people up and give Calvin a chance to win it one-on-one,

We know as a fact that No. 61 obtained a fake federal agent's ID to commit felonious crimes.

When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake.

The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.

One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.

Word of mouth is, two individuals have been scouring the area, finding high-price value dogs and selling them with fake papers.

People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

If I'm going to make a fake movie, it's going to be a fake hit.

I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake.

If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.

Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?

Shot fakes and ball fakes work. No one uses more than Wisconsin. It's amazing how many people don't use them

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.

I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'

Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.

I'm not a big reality show fan, because I just think it's too fake.

Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.

Let it be said that the makeup artist at '90210' made me look better for the fake red carpet than I've ever looked on an actual red carpet.

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile

President Obama announced his re-election campaign, though it’s not really a surprise. He did all the things that make it official: He filed the paperwork, redesigned his website, and printed another fake birth certificate.

Hopefully we'll get to a point where there are absolutely no restrictions on any kind of violence in movies. I'd love to see us get to a point where you can go to theaters and see movies unrated and that people know its not real violence. It's all pretend. It's all fake. It's just acting. It's just magic tricks.

The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or later. You have to -- I don't know --you have to learn to live with yourself. You have to learn to turn back your own sheets and set a table for one without feeling pathetic. You have to be strong and confident and pleased with yourself and never give the slightest impression that you can't hack it without that certain goddamn someone. You have to fake the hell out of it.

ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes. If the British national ID card can't be faked, it will be the first on the planet.

There's not much that I'm closed off about, and the universe gave me all that so I could help people feel like they don't have to be something they're not or feel like they have to fake happy. There's nothing worse than being fake happy.

There are more and more of these breaches, because information is money. The more computerized we are the more true that is. It?s not that hard to turn a piece of information into cash, by opening a fake cell phone account or a fake credit card account.

I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender

Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there.