Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

It’s not only what you do in politics. It’s what you appear to do.

One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

With acting, I think half of it is just acting confident. We stand on these red carpets and pose in these dresses, but we're all only so confident. It doesn't mean we think we're great looking or anything. It's all a façade.

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.

No good-looking appearance would conceal low intelligence.

I allow the public to believe that I have more influence with the King than I do in reality.

Get thee glass eyes ;, And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

When you see something that needs to be done, you do it.

If you are not the best, then pretend you are

I am not what you see and hear.

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.

People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.