When you don't know what you're doing, fake it. — Jill Shalvis
I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake — Rick Owens
Not many people are true, fake as the lies they tell — Kid Cudi
Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything. — Mary Jo Putney
Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else. — Alex Gaskarth
When we bluff our way through life, pretending to be who we are not, we end up looking worse than we truly are. — Jay Shetty
Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it. — Amy Cuddy
If you fake the funk, your nose will grow. — Bootsy Collins
Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made. — Daniel Schorr
People striving for approval from others become phony. — Ichiro Suzuki
You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real. — Thomas Bernhard
Fake it, fake your confidence until it's real. I think it's a good way to live most of your life. — Marina and the Diamonds
Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made. — Barbara Stanwyck
Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't. — Rick Warren
Short Being Fake Quotes
Being who you are is a lot easier than faking it. — Adam Lambert
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. — George Burns
Unless you can fake sincerity, you'll get nowhere in this business. — Roger Stone
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. — Groucho Marx
Our expectation that others will buy into our fake image is never satisfied – and we feel unhappy. — Mo Gawdat
Pretending is a very valuable life skill. — Meryl Streep
Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive. — Serj Tankian
Hard to tell the real from fake ‘cause nowadays, they got masks on. — 21 Savage
People bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone. — Megan Fox
Don't impersonate. Innovate. — Conor McGregor
Being Fake Image Quotes
Fake people have and image to maintain. Real people just don't care.
Not Being Fake Quotes
There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed. — Shams Tabrizi
Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense. — Wale
One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express. — John Astin
You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. — John Green
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. — Richard Bach
It'll be nice not to have to use my fake IDs anymore. — Phil Mickelson
Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium. — Augusten Burroughs
Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you. — Jason Mraz
You have to really enjoy (being sexy). Not fake anything. Sexy is being in the moment, whether that means being coy or coming on hard. Faking is always lame and it never comes across the way you want it to. — Cameron Diaz
Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake. — Jeff Lindsay
Friends Being Fake Quotes
Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies. — Al Capone
The realest people don’t have a lot of friends. — Tupac Shakur
I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one. — Andy Borowitz
Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies. — Sara Shepard
No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart. — Stephen King
We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends. — Paulo Coelho
One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend. — Jason Ritter
Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends. — Michael Bassey
There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end. — Rita Zahara
Being Real Not Fake Quotes
If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self and I'm not going to judge my fake self. — Benjamin Clementine
I feel that we should always be a real friend, always, even to those who chose to be fake. Not because they are nice but because you are. — Rita Zahara
What you think is fake in your head comes off as not enough on camera, a lot of times. You almost have to overdo it, in this overly, sort of Broadway, large-gestures kind of way to come off as being realistic on camera. It's strange. You almost have to act really fake to come off looking real. — Jack White
I think that movies are really fake; they should be fake. I don't think my way is any better than anybody else's way, but I know they're not real. I like to lean into the make-believe aspect of movies. That's why they're better than real life. — Steven Conrad
If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake. — Conor Oberst
Faking It Quotes
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it. — Tupac Shakur
Sincerity is the most important thing in acting. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. — Unknown Author
One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it. — Julie Taymor
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful. — Betty Smith
Rule No. 1 is you can't be fake. If you're fake, you become a gimmick and you're selling a gimmick; a little gimmick is cool, this is entertainment. But when you base your stuff on mostly real stuff, you never run out of it because every day is a different adventure. — Nas
The 'Rule of Three' is simply getting the other guy to agree to the same thing three times in the same conversation, it's really hard to repeatedly lie or fake conviction. — Chris Voss
Winning isn't everything to me, but it's a close second. Losing isn't something that I can just brush off and fake a smile to hide my frustration. It's that will and determination that I hope will get me where I want to go. — Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
My enemy is not the average white guy, its not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the streets. My enemy is the white I don't see: the people in The white House, the corporate monoply owners. Fake liberal politicians-those are my enemies. — Immortal Technique
A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one. — Masashi Kishimoto
A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy. — Ric O'Barry
Fake People Quotes
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. — Alexander Hamilton
We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. — Marilyn Monroe
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. — Anna Quindlen
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships. — Sharon Stone
All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity. — Umberto Eco
Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics. — George Soros
I am what everybody in my past don't want me to be — Drake
I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there. — Sasha Alexander
Fake Quotes
I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection — Drake
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. — George Washington
No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed. — Tupac Shakur
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. — Mitch Hedberg
Today's woman puts on wigs, fake eyelashes, false nails, sixteen pounds of make-up/shadows/blushes/creams, living bras, various pads that would make a linebacker envious, has implants and assorted other surgeries, then complains that she cannot find a 'real' man — Maynard James Keenan
You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends. — Joan Jett
I keep chicks in my lap, throwing me head fakes! — Fabolous
You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal. — Doug Coupland
College degrees becoming increasingly worthless. This will only get worse. Why are we wasting money and resources on this? Fake degrees remove 3-5 labour years from market and cost public money spent on pointless edubureacracies. — Philip Pilkington
I think it's because I'm real. Inside and outside of the ring, what you see is what you get. I'm CM Punk. I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I'm not trying to lie to the people or be fake. I'm not trying to be some crazy, outlandish character. I'm real and they appreciate that. Everything I say, it comes from the heart. It's all real. — CM Punk
The practice of assertiveness: being authentic in our dealings with others; treating our values and persons with decent respect in social contexts; refusing to fake the reality of who we are or what we esteem in order to avoid disapproval; the willingness to stand up for ourselves and our ideas in appropriate ways in appropriate contexts. — Nathaniel Branden
If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into everything we touch. If it doesn't, others know. Passion can't be faked and it can't be manufactured. Which is why it is so priceless. — R. D. Laing
The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children because they're so honest. There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child. — Sayings
The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard. — Jean Baudrillard
You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive. — Mac Anderson
Any industry in which people complain about their *sshole boss is likely part of the bezzle, because bosses can only really afford to be *ssholes in the economic fake reality of the bezzle. In a productive firm offering valuable service to society, success depends on pleasing customers. Workers are rewarded for how well they do that essential task, and bosses who mistreat their workers will either lose the workers to competitors or destroy their business quickly. In an unproductive firm that does not serve society and relies on bureaucratic largesse for its survival. — Saifedean Ammous
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even-if you will-eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with. — Joseph Brodsky
Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what? — Jim Rohn
Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them. — Jeff Lindsay
Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you. Don't let the 'business' change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it. — George Jones
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. — Klaus Kinski
We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European. — Alec Guinness
Problem with these other niggas they aint never real — Drake
You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them. — Etta James
This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I be in my own world to much fake shit on earth. — 21 Savage
People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language. — Afrojack
Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery. — Hart Crane
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk. — Thomas A. Edison
Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of. — Daniel Pearce
It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated the entire studio, we really did. We brought out lights, fake trees and decorated the place to get in the Christmas spirit. You'd leave the studio, and it'd be 100 degrees out in Nashville, but nonetheless, a great experience. — Dave Haywood
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