I was really into films when I was younger, but I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn't know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn't want to do any of the courses.

- Aidan Turner

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

- Barry Hannah

Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.

- Bradford Dillman

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

- Camille Paglia

I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.

- Charles R. Swindoll

How many reality shows can you watch? They're so obviously phony.

- Eric Braeden

I don't like living around too many fancy-pantsy folks. That ain't my thing. I'm not into phony people.

- James McBride

It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.

- Janine di Giovanni

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

- Jennifer Tilly

I have been able to sniff out a phony.

- Jennifer Coolidge

You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.

- Jack Harbaugh

I'm just happy I'm not a phony.

- Mike Tyson

I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it's sickening.

- Mr. T

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

- Oscar Levant

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

- River Phoenix

I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.

- Rachel Kushner