Phil McGraw Quotes

I'm glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

I look much more civilized than I actually am.

I think anyone doing an interview is to some extent on show. And therefore, we always want to put on our best face.

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.

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

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

I'm just very good at pretending.

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

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

Nixon's pretense was to be less than he was—less thoughtful, less introverted, less skeptical and analytical, less cerebral—to present himself deliberately as an Average American: patriotic, conventionally religious and responsible, gregarious, sports-loving, hardworking and hard-nosed.

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

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

What audiences see is a curated version of myself.

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

I find it an effort to keep up appearances.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

Only a genius can play a fool.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.