Hattie McDaniel Quotes

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

People can smell when things aren't genuine.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

You can't lie to your audience. You can't lie to your fans.

I never lie to my fans.

It's best not to appear to believe what you say but to believe what you say.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off.

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

The worst thing you can do in a leadership position is be something you're not.

People can smell a fake.

I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.

Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

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

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.