Quotes About Authenticity

In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you. 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.

I think Rachel Maddow is quite good at what she does. I also think she's a phony who doesn't have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air.

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.

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.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.

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.

I'm a lot of things but not a liar or a phony, even when I know it's in my best interest to be.

There is something about a phony that creeps me out so much.

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

I cannot be phony.

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.

I don't think there is a single character in 'The Graduate' that is not a phony, to one degree or another, except Benjamin and Elaine, and only in the scenes when they are alone together.

You don't want to come in and be phony and be someone you're not.

I need a little more 'Jersey Shore' in me, I guess. It's just not who I am. It would almost be phony at this point.

People can see through a phony.

I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it's sickening.

I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion.

I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.

I don't like living around too many fancy-pantsy folks. That ain't my thing. I'm not into phony people.

When you're riding around with the fellas, you want to listen to something real masculine, like 'Boyz-in-the-Hood.' How would it look riding around and listening to something wimpy like 'I Need Love' or that phony stuff Jazzy Jeff does?

I don't even like wrestling really small guys a lot of the time. It just feels phony.

My real name is Julie Tawny Kitaen. I know it sounds phony but it isn't.

I love experimenting with clothes for photo shoots, but when I'm onstage, I want to show people that there are other options. You can just be yourself and still make good music.