Top 45 Faking Quotes

When I’m on stage, that’s a job. It’s acting, it’s faking, just making fun of yourself, telling bad jokes – I’m pretty good in this – dancing, just to entertain.

Faking is a social activity in which people act together to draw a veil over unwanted realities and encourage each other in the exercise of their illusory powers.

The worst crime is faking it.

It’s funny, I hear people say I’m faking all this science stuff. That’s the furthest thing from the truth. It’s literally what I have to do to play and perform at this level.

I’ve always been very open and very honest with my fans. I want them to know that I’m genuine, and I am who I am, and I’m not faking it for the camera.

I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn’t practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn’t practice and I was faking it.

I feel like I’m kind of faking something if I’m talking as myself and putting on an accent.

I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you’re faking it and if your heart’s really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible.

As long as it feels valid to me and feels sincere, I’ll do what I do under the moniker of Nine Inch Nails if it’s appropriate. I would hate to think I would ever be in a position where I’m faking it to get a paycheck.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

I love live TV, and there’s no replacing or faking.

I knew I wasn’t a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn’t want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

I love to get thrown around, and the reality about it. I hate watching a movie, knowing the actors are faking it.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.

The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding – it’s a really powerful idea.

‘Faking It’ was hard for me to let go of because I knew how many kids it helped.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she’s pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

The phrase ‘fake news’ sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.

Black women usually don’t get the luxury of faking their way through life and still succeeding, but when a white guy does it, he may even get to be the president of the United States.

Anyone can lie. One need only have the requisite intention – in other words, to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, by contrast, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included.

I don’t mind someone saying I’m not good enough. It hurts more when someone says you’re faking an injury.

Real emotion is good – or doing a good job of faking real emotion.

But then acting is all about faking. We’re all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

That’s the biggest act of cowardice, faking injuries.

I think pageant girls just have a way of faking it until you make it, almost.

Ever since my grade school days, as I mastered the art of ‘faking sick’ and I stumbled across ‘The View,’ I’ve been confusedly asking myself the same question… How do these dumb broads remain gainfully employed?

Just try to play hard to win games and to be versatile. And also be a great teammate. I’m not faking anything I’m doing out here. I’m being myself. I’m not faking anything.

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

I always felt like I was kind of faking it. I wasn’t sure how to create a character. I wasn’t sure how to carry a 20-episode show.

I run my routes like a crossover dribble. It’s about taking angles, faking one way but going the other, and being savvy. And then, instead of running to the basket, I’m running away from the defender.

I’d rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I’m this face of women’s basketball, when I can’t stand the sport at all.

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

For me, drag is about two things – confidence and glamour. Drag is about using artiface and illusion to tap into the self-confidence we all have. And glamour is about taking what you have naturally and showcasing in a way that makes you feel good. It’s truly a practice in faking it until you make it.

If I’m happy, you can tell, and there’s no way of faking it.

I rise at 6. Strong coffee helps me face the paper edition of ‘The New York Times.’ It daily challenges my own capacity for faking anything deranged enough to sound true. I work till 2 P.M. unless I am in the throes of finishing something. I rewrite to be reread.

As an actor, there’s no faking it.

I come from a pop background, but I’m also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I’m faking it.

I didn’t want to be one of these rappers that holds his chain up just faking like he has money. I wanted more.

I look at it like this: I’m being myself, everybody else in my industry is faking it.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.

I’ve always been a very sensitive person, and people tell me that if I’m in a certain mood, and I go into a room, my mood will permeate the room. It’s not on purpose – I’d rather be invisible in those moments – but I’m really bad at faking how I feel.

There’s no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity, because you are lying about it.

There’s a lot of people out here faking a smile on their face like they got it together but inside actually suffering from some sort of traumatic experience, a loss, depressed, fearful, envious or whatever the case may be, but I can feel it.

Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy – witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he’d been faking evidence for years.

If it wasn’t for my trainer – who comes looking for me three times a week before 7 A.M. – I wouldn’t get my butt out of bed and into the gym. There are many mornings when I think about faking a sprained ankle, but I just put it out of my head and make myself go.