Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claire Bloom

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

Billy Graham

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Bill Cosby

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Bette Davis

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

Betty Smith

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.

Joey Skaggs

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

Garrison Keillor

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Jose Marti

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Lloyd Bridges

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.

Luciano Pavarotti

It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.

Maimonides

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

Orson Welles

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Orson Welles

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Heidi Julavits

I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a fake psychic attending a fake school in a fake town. Nothing's inherently believable about any kind of fiction, because all of it's untrue.

Bertrand Russell

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Harry Houdini

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

Hans Blix

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.

Jessica Chastain

I try not to fake anything.

Eudora Welty

Beware of a man with manners.

Fidel Castro

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

Fidel Castro

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

Jacques Barzun

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Ellen DeGeneres

Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Jim Bakker

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

James A. Baldwin

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Frank Rich

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.

Christie Brinkley

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

George Soros

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

Gail Simmons

You can't fake being able to cook well.

F. L. Lucas

Most style is not honest enough.

F. H. Bradley

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