Never get caught acting.
Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.
In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem.
You cannot play naive if you're not.
To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.
Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their preferred disguise.
Whenever I find myself in an exceptionally beautiful environment, I can't help asking myself - what lies beneath? I'm fascinated by the idea of a perfect surface concealing a rotten core.
Especially with Facebook and Instagram and Twitter, I can't tell necessarily the nitty gritty of what you're really up to. I'm just seeing the performance of all the work you're doing and the look you're giving; it's very hard to get to the center. It's very hard to see what's what.
Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.
You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.
Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
Being is like pretending.
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
I'm a Southern girl, and I like to put a good face on everything.
I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
