Phony Quotes

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

I have been able to sniff out a phony.

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

We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.

Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's all.

People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.

It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...

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.

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 think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we've seen so much of that in the last 20 years.

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

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.

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.

It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.

Reject the phony Patients' Bill of Rights....We don't have to continue down the path of socialized medical care, especially in America where free markets have provided so much for so many.

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

I would like to get married, actually. I've done everything else in my life now except that, but where do I find the real thing? The non-phony? In Los Angeles? I am not so sure.

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

The Republicans released their 'Pledge to America.' It's 21 pages of phony charts and bad ideas. Sarah Palin got a copy, and she said, 'How am I supposed to fit all this crap on my hand?

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.

Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.

You watch these phony networks, and dishonest networks, who are 100 percent about Hillary Clinton. She's got nothing going. The only thing she's got going is the media.

Just saw the phony ad by [Ted] Cruz. Totally false. More dirty tricks. He got caught in so many lies. Is this man crazy?

What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.

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.

Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect.

The goal was 'every child a wanted child'; it should also have been 'every abortion a wanted abortion', but the two sides of the phony debate were never to meet.

Flexibility. Oh, that's pretty clearly saying that what Donald Trump said to The New York Times is very different than what he's saying to the American people. He is not the real deal. He is a phony.

Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.

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

Said I'll make it big when, everybody know me Well, I made it big and, everybody phony

Just once I’d like to meet a fella who isn’t a phony. Somebody who doesn’t wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.

I cursed [Larry Merchant] out once, and I told him that he was a phony.

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.

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

The padded outfits, the bad scripts, the phony-looking sets... he dealt with it all. He had to. He was Superman.

According to a new report, more than 700 fake Obamacare websites have been created. Security experts say it's simple to identify the phony sites because they are easy to log on to.

There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are. They just don't feel right.

What simple andordinary lives we live, underneath the shadowsof projection screenartists

When you're way too real, fake people be like: "You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies).

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it. I hated everyone, for they were so phony. I don't give a damn about my bad reputation

If you can't be real and firm with others about who you are, you will be doomed to a phony, plastic bullshit existence, where you only live for others.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.