Eric Balfour Quotes

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

I abhor hypocrisy.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

What is earnest is not always the truth.

People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.

If you're not being yourself, it shows immediately. The camera doesn't lie.

If you're not sincere with it, you shouldn't say anything at all.

If you pretend to be somebody that you're not when you write songs - and I did that on some of the early Styx albums - nobody cares about what you have to say.

We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.

People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don't like the truth.

I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Not many people are true, fake as the lies they tell

There is so much crap in the world, both in show and other businesses, that I try to be vulnerable myself, in the hopes that there is some truth I can get to, that makes people feel less alone in the world.

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.