Rose McGowan Quotes

I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.

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.

Good liars are skilled at reading others well, putting them at ease, managing their own emotions, and intuitively sensing how others perceive them.

White lies keep social dignity intact and are far more prevalent than most people realize. Several studies have found that an average person is lied to from 10 to 200 times a day - mostly just to keep a conversation going, to avoid conflict, or to establish a connection with someone.

I have several different masks that I wear.

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.

Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.

when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.

The puppet on the right shares my beliefs, the puppet on the left is more to my liking. Hey...there's one guy holding up both!

I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting?

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

I ain't the captain of the yacht, but I'm on the boat; I ain't acting what I'm not, knowing that I don't. You niggaz acting like you will, but I know you won't. Man, I read between the lines of the eyes of your brows, Your handshake ain't matchin your smile.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Though I know that he had something to do with the attack simulation, and with all those deaths, I find it difficult to pair those actions with the man I see in front of me. I wonder if this is how it is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likeable as good men.