I'm not trying to be anyone. You know why other executives always hire phonies? Because they're phonies. They hire phonies because they like phonies. They're comfortable with them.
Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.
The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.
In a town full of phonies, I'm not afraid to be me.
I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.
Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies-I felt like saying “Howdy cousin,” to everybody who walked by.
It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.
We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.
It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.
The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.
If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.
They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.