Top 100 Fake It Quotes
#1. That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't get by it. This is dealing with the most primal instincts and emotions that a mother can have.
Patricia Clarkson
#2. Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
Yancy Butler
#3. Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
Daniel Schorr
#4. You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
John Green
#5. Welcome to Hollywood. Here you can be whatever you want! That's the secret of American success! Fake it till you make it!
Lily Amis
#6. fake it 'til you make it. If you don't feel good, pretend you do because eventually you will. It hasn't worked yet, but I'm still holding out hope.
Courtney Cole
#7. Or you could simply throw down a few inches of compost and fake it. That's what we do, isn't it? Do the best with what we have? It's not lying, dear. Don't look at it that way. It's hopeful pretending. Consider it your patriotic duty.
Na
#8. Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.
Steven Tyler
#9. I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about.
Alton Brown
#10. I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it ... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics.
Robert Kirkman
#11. You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.
Jim Bakker
#12. I'm starting to think being a grown-up isn't going to school or even paying your own rent. It's learning to fake it when you got no other choice.
Amy Lane
#13. In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else.
Simon McBurney
#14. I'll fake it through the day somehow with Johnny Walker Red.
Elliot Smith
#15. To find your way, you will need courage. Lots of it. If you don't have it, fake it until you make it. Soulshapers are artists, but they are also warriors. It is no easy feat to shape the inner world. You need the heart of a lion to overcome the odds. You need to fight for your right to the light.
Jeff Brown
#16. Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.
Stephen King
#17. I wish there were some kind of magic words that could bridge the cap between the person I am and the one I wish I could be. Because the whole fake it till you make it thing? It's not working for me.
Julie Murphy
#18. I was promising myself strength.
I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it.
Aspen Matis
#19. Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn't actually exist. In the twentieth century one had to fake it.
Dennis Cooper
#20. We've been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times, if we faked it?
Charles Duke
#21. It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.
Alex Flinn
#22. With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is.
Joe Elliott
#23. Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that ... reveals your inner self, whether you like it, or know it, or not. It is hard to fake it on a dance floor.
Dirk Benedict
#24. When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.
Jill Shalvis
#25. I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.
Lloyd Bridges
#26. Fake it till you make it, he reminds himself. This is how he's survived Army life so far.
Ben Fountain
#27. The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it.
Doseone
#28. You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You can hardly sing your songs unless you're in them. If you want to fake it, go ahead. Fake it if you want. But I'm not that kind of singer.
Bob Dylan
#29. The fact is, He just wasn't interested in those who fake it.
Francis Chan
#30. I am 18 years old, that's for sure, OFFICIALLY... no need to hide anymore my age or to try to fake it for one reason or another... but still somehow I miss 16,17 being years old. Somehow feeling like trash now... doesn't makes anything better.
Deyth Banger
#31. That whole saying of "fake it 'til you make it" actually has a lot of validity. Your jerk of a brain is so used to not having motivation and so used to not deriving pleasure from fun
Robert Duff
#32. Good comics stick around. There are people who have TV shows that might be successful, but comics can't really fake it. If you say, 'Hey, I love what you guys are doing - you're funny,' then you're in. It's legit.
Wanda Sykes
#33. Using poise is not being fake; it is being professional, strong, and composed.
Tanya R. Liverman
#35. Marriage is becoming sort of fake. It's almost like a handbag. Everybody wants the newest, greatest and latest. It becomes an event, and it's definitely a status symbol in our society. I'm not saying it shouldn't be; it absolutely should be - but you shouldn't be focusing on that.
Rob Lowe
#36. It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.
Rich Lowry
#37. I was lucky to grow up with phenomenal parents who were into talking about things. When something hit me hard as a kid, we'd just talk about it. I'm usually pretty open about what's going on with me. I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.
Eric Lange
#38. You have to learn to accept your body. You have to learn to like what you see in the mirror. There are definitely times when I don't feel like myself, but you have to fake it until you make it.
Kim Kardashian
#39. So for me having that element of being able to be competitive wasn't a problem. I'm very competitive. I thought if I could skate first, acting would come second. I could say my lines and then go do what I was saying. You don't have to fake it, you're not really acting.
John Robinson
#40. I hate the whole concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable!
Christian Louboutin
#41. One of the hardest things in the world is to perform on record and get someone to enjoy and feel what you're doing. It's unlike, like TV you can, you can fake it with the face and the crying and the bits. Recording is completely different.
Ben E. King
#42. A few years ago, for my birthday, Sean Price Williams said, "I'll give you one free day of shooting." He shot Kati with an I and co-shot Fake It So Real. While we've always worked together, I didn't want him to do it for free, so he cashed in his birthday chip and came for this one day.
Robert Greene
#43. If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.
Clancy Brown
#44. Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.
Cesar Romero
#45. Fake it, I scream at myself inside my head. You must remember how. Let's get this over with or you'll be here all night. Bestir yourself. Move your flesh around, breathe audibly. It's the least you can do.
Margaret Atwood
#46. For once in my life, I was going to get through a situation with a little dignity. OK, I probably wasn't, but I would fake it as if my life depended on it.
Molly Harper
#47. I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.
Charles Bukowski
#48. Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.
Ruby Wax
#49. Even though I know the rain is fake, it feels the same as real rain, and I desperately need that.
Beth Revis
#50. Eighty percent of the things I do are not natural for my personality. I believe you have to fake it till you make it. Act like you're confident and you'll get there.
Marisa Miller
#51. Rather than admitting you don't know what to do next, you fake it in public and feel lost when you're alone.
Emily P. Freeman
#53. And her smile isn't fake. It's open and loving and I know she probably smiles like that at everybody, but it feels like that smile was meant just for me.
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
#55. Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel pressure to fake it, at least in public. Nobody wants the stigma of being thought poor.
Virginia Postrel
#56. It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up.
Paul Auster
#57. Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we're not going to insult anyone's intelligence - there is a predetermined winner. It's just the fans don't know who it is, and that's what makes it so intriguing.
Kurt Angle
#58. As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.
Louie Giglio
#59. Fake it, fake your confidence until it's real. I think it's a good way to live most of your life.
Marina And The Diamonds
#60. I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?
Andy Roddick
#61. While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.
Steve Winwood
#62. The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support.
Cordelia Fine
#63. Fake it until you make it! When you're feeling bad, get dressed up - soon your inside will catch up with your outside
Denise Austin
#64. Bucko?" A softening of his features told me he was amused. "Confidence is sexy on you." "Yeah, well." I ducked my head to hide my tingling cheeks. "Fake it 'til you make it.
Hailey Edwards
#65. I think being consistent is really important. In the arts there's a misconception that you sit around waiting for the muse to come, and that it's all really mystical and mysterious. In reality, sometimes you have to fake it till you make it.
Ayana Mathis
#66. Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
Keanu Reeves
#67. I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.
Billy Collins
#68. Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.
Ian McDonald
#70. I thought of what Mom sometimes said to me when I was feeling insecure: Fake it till you make it.
Gayle Forman
#71. Anyone who ever had a heart,
He wouldn't turn around and break it.
Anyone who ever played a part,
he wouldn't turn around and fake it.
Sweet Jane
Lou Reed
#73. Not every person is going to like you in every place you work. That's okay! Accept this, assume an attitude of "fake it till you make it," and use the experience to keep building your skills and moving your career forward.
Debra Shigley
#74. Let people see your struggles and don't ever fake it.
Rich Mullins
#75. Perception is assumed to be reality until clients encounter the reality of the brand, don't fake it
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#76. Fake it until you make it. Or, in this case, until I figured out whether the danger was real and who it was coming from.
Gwenda Bond
#77. There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America.
Dayananda Saraswati
#78. You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can't really fake it.
Peter Diamandis
#79. I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don't. You can't learn it and you can't be taught it. I don't think that if you are not a funny person, you can fake it.
Edward Norton
#80. I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it.
Stanley Hauerwas
#81. In order for me to achieve ... I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.
Mike Tyson
#82. Treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't
until you do understand.
Kim Harrison
#85. And so your personality is shaped. You know too much, and this knowledge makes you wary. You grow fearful and mistrustful. The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so you learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't actually feel.
Christina Baker Kline
#86. I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.
Min-sik Choi
#87. The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.
Trevor McDonald
#88. One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.
Julie Taymor
#90. No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.
Harrison Ford
#91. This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.
Larry Wall
#93. I've learned how to adapt to different cultures and understand all different walks of life. I've also learned that confidence is key, even if you have to fake it at times. Fake it till you make it, as they say.
Martha Hunt
#95. I don't know how I feel about that. I mean, I'm not an idiot. I don't live in a magical bubble where orgasms fall from the sky and land in a woman's bed every time she has sex. I know they fake it sometimes.
Elle Kennedy
#96. We can't hide it or fake it. We'll never fit society's idea for how women should look and behave, but why is that a tragedy? We're free to live how we want. It's liberating, if you choose to see it that way.
Sarai Walker
#97. Obviously there's Netflix, iTunes, and Amazon and all these other outlets. Fake It So Real is now on Fandor, and I think people have actually seen it there, which is fine.
Robert Greene
#98. Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.
Amy Cuddy
#100. I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.
Keira Knightley
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