Phony Quotes
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Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.
Ernest A. Jones
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That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It`s an assumed familiarity. It`s phony.
Jennifer Tilly
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It`s so phony, nobody believes in it. - On Rio Bravo (1959)
Gary Cooper
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It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you`d have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them. I`d look at myself in the suit and tie and think, "What the heck am I doing here?...
Pierce Brosnan
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I`m not a phony-friendly guy and I`m usually very quiet and not a big laugher, so some people might take that for rudeness and being mean. If anyone ever got that impression, I apologize. I love all my fans and really appreciate all their support!
Jesse McCartney
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[On Bob Fosse] Fosse, I think, came to a high point in his life, with an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy, and asked himself, "Do they think I`m really that good? They don`t know I`m really a sham, a hoax, a phony, a lousy human being, not much of a friend to an...
Roy Scheider
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[on being asked about his "phony hair" at Harvard in 1974] It`s not phony. It`s real hair. Of course, it`s not mine, but it`s real.
John Wayne
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[on being asked about his "phony hair" at Harvard in 1974] It`s not phony. It`s real hair. Of course, it`s not mine, but it`s real.
John Wayne
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I don`t believe in that phony hero stuff.
Steve McQueen
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When I came here, I didn`t know anybody, ... I wanted to see what true Buffalonians are like. And so I met them, and they`re just like me - just very, very real people. They`re not fake or phony. They`re not fluff.
J.P. Losman
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Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen.
John Doolittle
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Trying to change the name of it is a phony exercise.
Arieh Sharon
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The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark.
Max Sydow
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The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn`t care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.
Jimmy Johnson
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Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.
Don Henley
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Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don`t do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.
Christine McVie
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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you`re ready to play as tough as you`re able to, you`d better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you`re not giving it all you`ve go...
Larry Bird
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It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you`d have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.
Pierce Brosnan
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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.
John Robinson
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If somebody doesn`t have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can`t be helped.
Brian Green
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I`m just happy I`m not a phony.
Mike Tyson
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I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There`s a culture of youth, and it`s a phony culture.
Teresa Kerry
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I do not want to hear phony cries about budget restraint. The tax cuts for the rich rob us of our ability to have good programs.
Alberto Melloni
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Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn`t like selling products I didn`t believe in.
River Phoenix
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Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn`t like selling a product I didn`t believe in.
River Phoenix
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Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
Amy Lambert
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[Most writers` view of the New West is] either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it`s obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There`s not a lot of realistic, observant writing about the West right now.
Walter Kirn
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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
Oscar Levant
Subject: Hollywood QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
