Quotes About Deception

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

People can see through a phony.

If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.

When you can use forged photograph of Manoj Tiwari then all your claims are false. The whole party and their thinking is fake.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.

Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Those elements that make 'Catfish' so interesting to watch, elements of deception and mystery, make any movie or any piece of content exciting to watch. It makes characters complex and interesting.

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot.

My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there's a gooey, dark chocolate center.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.

When my body is covered and disappears, it's not about the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans which are used to fool the public.

What I immediately recognized about Wall Street in 1983 was that it was a continuation of my career in theater. Wall Street is a big theater, and it's all illusions.

On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough.