Quotes About Deception

I've noticed, in the ebbs and flows of success and popularity, so much of it is fraudulent and to be distrusted.

Growing up, I remember I played tennis competitively and I'd always like fake an injury to get out of the conditioning portion. I was never a runner.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze of deception. The journey of women becoming is breaking through this maze - springing into free space, which is an a-mazing process.

At 15, I did a ouija board with my best friend. I pretended I was possessed by a ghost, and she believed it.

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

Essentially, what QAnon was - what the Q poster was doing - was impersonating a federal agent.

I know some of my memories are made up and they are far more powerful than the things that actually happened. For example, I always remember my brother posting me a copy of 'Dubliners' from Africa, but he says he never did.

Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.

If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that doesn't exist.

You just want fame so bad. You want success so bad. You just believe anybody who conjures up a pretty contract and they're telling you all these sweet nothings I guess.

What's so great about 'Gone Girl' is the conversations it provokes.

The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.

Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.'

For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.

At university, I used to cheat and use precooked meals and then tell my friends that I've cooked it. They thought I had skills!

Consumers recognize, and don't like, corporate lying.

I don't want corporate America to think they can continue their duplicitous double-dealing.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.