Inauthenticity Quotes

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

Politicians have no politics.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

I can't stand people who try too hard.

I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

I am opposed to autobiographies, mainly because most autobiographies lie.

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

When I met people in the past, even before saying hello, I felt like I should explain myself: This isn't who I am!

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

The political classes are despised when they deal in sound bites, embrace tokenistic campaigns and feather their own nests while trying to please all of the people all of the time.

People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.

I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do.

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

I think, a lot of my career and my life before I went to Sweden, I felt like I was trying to be someone else.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

Sadly, if President Obama is willing to ignore the pain of race-based discrimination and injustice so as to make whites comfortable - and this, after he has already been elected and the campaign is long over - then the likelihood he will ever speak the truth about these matters, let alone address them, shrinks to nearly zero.

And yet I understood the alienation of being around others who couldn't really see you or chose not to. I'd felt the self-loathing that came with being a fraud, protraying an image of what you wished you could be but weren't. I'd lived with the fear that people you loved might turn away from you if they ever got to know the true person hidden inside.