Phony Quotes

I'm just happy I'm not a phony.
Mike Tyson

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.
Charles R. Swindoll

Life, Real, Keep

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
Larry Bird

Leadership, Giving, Through

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.
Vivian Stanshall

Different, Desperate, Gang

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.
Chloe Sevigny

Business, Happy, Put

People striving for approval from others become phony.
Ichiro Suzuki

Others, Become, Striving

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
Pope Paul VI

Memories, Left, Safe

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.
Newt Gingrich

Purpose, Weird, President

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Oscar Levant

Real, Find, Away

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
Camille Paglia

Film, Criticism, Academic

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
Oscar Levant

Real, Lies, Behind

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.
Susan Orlean

Used, Making, Wild

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.
Anne Lamott

Love, Funny, Someone

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.
Jimmy Johnson

Time, Care, Worse

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.
Ron Fournier

Time, Father, Confidence

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.
James Wolcott

Rock, Hair, Insincere

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.
Ryan Gosling

Thought, Tough, Guys

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.
Jennifer Tilly

Else, Everybody, Hollywood

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
Manuel Puig

Life, Hope, Matter

As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.
Ethan Hawke

Yourself, Real, Young

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.
Christine McVie

Writing, Around, Learn

If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.
Brian Austin Green

Enough, Able, Realize

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.
River Phoenix

Selling, Products

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.
Don Henley

Sound, Plastic, Records

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.
Teresa Heinz

Age, Women, Men

It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.
Pierce Brosnan

Stupid, Real, Felt

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.
Max von Sydow

Wife, Children, Dark

Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen.
John Doolittle

Happen, Stand, Willing

Everybody is watching you every minute anyways. If they think the message you're sending out is phony, they're going to say, 'Who does he think he is?' It's again good business. But it is also an obligation.
James Sinegal

Good, Business, Again

I have been able to sniff out a phony.
Jennifer Coolidge

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