Phyllis Smith Quotes

On the Internet, on IMDB, they've got that my middle name as Archibald. I don't have a middle name! My father doesn't like middle names.

One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.

I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret!

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

I am a tall man, 6 feet and 1 1/4, and I am born in 1913; that's all.

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

These fellows in our league lie too much about their ages.

The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.

What's weird is that anybody can write anything, and once it goes online, it's permanent. My very first biography on IMDb, which was written by a manager I had at the time, was not true.

Regardless of what is on the Internet, I'm actually only 29 years old - and holding.

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

When you are writing something that is false and presenting it as a fact without confirming... I feel it's extremely wrong.

I don't like it when people lie about their age.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

... though a dealer in meat, groceries, and other food stuffs may obtain compensation if his wares are wilfully misrepresented to the buying public, the purveyor of thoughts or ideas has no remedy when such thoughts or ideas are deliberately and purposefully falsified to the world through the press.

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

It bugs me when they have people my age [28] playing teenagers.

Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!