Phony Quotes - page 3

I'm just happy I'm not a phony. (Mike Tyson)
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work. View quote
Kenzaburō Ōe
Boys today hardly aspire to immortal honor, the honor of self-fulfilling achievement. It is highly disapproved of in the code of the organized system. Instead, they devote themselves to protecting their "personal honor” against insults; and conversely they dream of the transient notoriety which will prove that they are "somebody,” which they doubt. The personal honor that they protect does not include truthfulness, honesty, public usefulness, integrity, independence, or virtues like that. A reputation for these things does not win respect, it has no publicity value; it's believed to be phony anyway, and if it's true, the person is hard to get along with. View quote
Paul Goodman
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. View quote
Oscar Levant
As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore. View quote
Ryan Gosling
States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated. View quote
Susan Orlean
School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony. View quote
John Taylor Gatto
I'd done commercials before, you had to smile and be phony, and that's not my style. The spot was created to be warm and homey, to lend itself to realism. That's important to me. View quote
Virginia Christine
I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real. View quote
Charles Swindoll
The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is political fiction. View quote
Ann McLane Kuster
I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know? (Alan Ball)
Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it. View quote
Bradford Dillman
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony. View quote
Barry Hannah
Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere. View quote
James Wolcott
The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time. View quote
Jimmy Johnson
If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that. View quote
John Robinson
The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark. View quote
Max von Sydow
One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington. View quote
Ron Fournier
I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture. View quote
Teresa Heinz
Without your love It's a honky-tonk parade Without your love It's a melody played in a penny arcade. It's a Barnum and Bailey world Just as phony as it can be But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me. View quote
Yip Harburg
Government is doing the exact opposite of what really needs to be done. George Bush and Barack Obama have pumped trillions more in counterfeit currency and credit into an economy already deathly ill from such treatment. If it goes on, we stand to suffer hyperinflation (all inflation consists of, no matter what they told you in Economics 101, is government generation of phony money) followed by another, very possibly terminal depression. Before it's over, the country - if not the whole world - will be locked down under brutal military rule, and our species likely will never again know freedom, progress, or prosperity. (L. Neil Smith)
I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird. View quote
Newt Gingrich
The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
Suddenly I was tired of Lotterman; he was a phony and he didn't even know it. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson