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 wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.
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.
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.
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.
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
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.
A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
I use fake tan myself with a self tanning spray.
I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.
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.
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.
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.
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
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.
One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money'.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm so popular around the world.
Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.
If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.
It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you.