Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.

All talk and all chatter is the false self.

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.

The fake republics are goners; the monarchies have a fighting chance. That’s my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East and discussions with officials and analysts there.

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...

It’s better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.

If a quote of two individuals looks identical or almost similar to make it difficult to know as who said it first to be Mr. Right, then it is perhaps sensible to give credit for...

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master’s painting and a forgery.

Be the best you even when it’s not the best day to be you

E atat de dificil sa fii si sensibila, si mandra. Ca sa nu suferi trebuie sa fii sau una, sau alta. Nu, in orice caz, si una, si alta.

I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah… Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting...

I have always found it odd that people who think passive aggressively ignoring a person is making a point to them. The only point it makes to anyone is your inability to articulate your point...

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

Nothing instills more fear and worry in one’s good heart than his burgeoning success as it devours his precious & pleasurable moments for self-introspection to make timely correction with an influx of a lot of...

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

I am not superior than anybody, don’t say i am, else i won’t defend you when you get caught.

One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies… Be smart choosing your friends.

Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.

The real leaders intend to do definitely that good task for which a pretender has provoked them by saying that it can’t be done, but the good number of pretenders tend to do only that...

Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his...

I’d rather fake my own fog, than fake a steamy love scene. Can I interest you in some mist? It’s homemade.

Here’s what’s not beautiful about it: from here, you can’t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what they place really is. You see how fake it all is....

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer,...

As for the fake teeth, they’re officially retired. I haven’t really found a need or want to wear them.

A person’s mind can find to see only his outer image in the mirror, his heart can see the inner part of his life’s beauty, but his soul can see the whole structure of his...

Fake a smile. No one knows you’re broken.

There is a 100% assurance that what your friend’s enemy tells you about your friend is false. What your failure tells you about your passion is fake. Don’t give up!

I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other’s eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth...

When my eyes meet his gaze as we’re sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one...

Courage is God’s way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.

Will you let me go for Christ’s sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

One or a couple of good thoughts may be a fluke or derived from life’s challenges, a few can be a practice or a lesson from failures and bad experiences but the consistency of excellent...

When you’re appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone’s need for your approval.

Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.

When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can’t even correct yours.

Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else’s.

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

A person can be only shown a mirror, but it’s solely his duty to decide whether he wants to see his artificial beauty or natural personality.

There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have understood: that for every genuine existence, for every real manifestation and occurrence, there are are ten...

Gadhafi has established no national institutions, not even allowing a fake parliament of the Mubarak or Ben Ali variety that could perhaps be turned into something real.

Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man’s got to fake just to stay alive.

There are just two things that can make you famous.. being noble or notorious.

The quality of a person’s life is the sum total of the character, good or not so good, of the people whom he has inspired and motivated, directly and indirectly, with his living standard and...

Most undercover cops are vastly skilled at compartmentalization. It is a talent as valued as lying. They seal off their real feelings and create imitation emotions. Easily torn down when it’s time to show the...

no”.

Pretend to be poor in reality and you’ll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.

The idea that you can dress up in some kind of a fake Indian outfit and get on stage is somehow acceptable in this country. That has to do with the fact that you have...