Shenaz Treasury Quotes

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

Style equals pretense.

I've been pretending to be a man that I'm not my entire life. I've been pretending to be strong when I felt weak, confident when I felt insecure and tough when really I was hurting. And I can tell you right now that it is exhausting.

To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?

People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's no problems. I feel like a lot of people are trying to be someone they're not, and when you're just yourself, life is so much easier because you don't have to keep up this facade.

Don't we all just really try to fake it well?

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

I am myself a fabulous fake.

From my hair to my toes to my nails. Everything's fake. Everything! Even my heart is fake.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

No one is ever who they purport to be.

I'm just very good at pretending.

I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me.

I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.

I don't like affectation.

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.