Faux Quotes

I will never wear something I’m not comfortable in, and if I do, you’ll see it in my face, and it’ll be a complete faux pas.

I wouldn’t call it a faux pas, but I have about 12 tracksuits. I always travel in a tracksuit. I feel it makes people happy when they see me.

But if an actress asks me my opinion, I would tell her there are a million different designers who make faux fur. If you like that look, wear faux fur. If you’re doing it on the red carpet, you’re doing it for how it looks. Faux fur and real fur look the same on camera.

I’m not really much of an actor, so when I started on ‘The Daily Show,’ I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British accent in and of itself.

I feel, at times, women in India go beyond their comfort zone just to clad the trend, and that automatically becomes a faux pas. If you are not comfortable with something, please don’t wear it.

Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we’re not all clones.

Don’t get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It’s faux literary fiction I can’t stand.

Gossipers derive pleasure from other people’s misfortunes. It might be fun to peer into somebody else’s personal or professional faux pas at first, but over time, it gets tiring, makes you feel gross, and hurts other people.

There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.

We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.

I’d love to say fashion faux pas differ from country to country, but they don’t.

I’m doing a pilot for Comedy Central with the band Steel Panther. They’re faux heavy metal. They started as kind of a tribute band out here, or a cover band, and they’re funny guys, and they just sort of morphed into their own thing.

I’ve got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.

I really like ‘Project Runway.’ I know it’s reality, so that might be kind of faux pas for me to say.

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows – faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

I’m not really much of an actor, so when I started on ‘The Daily Show’, I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.

I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn’t want to have normal student accoutrements.

One fashion faux pas that men make is wearing ill-fitted clothing with too many prints and statement pieces.

I have lots of hard-earned knowledge about women through heartbreak – and social faux pas. When I was about 15, thinking I was engaging in light conversation, I asked a woman when she was due. Of course, she wasn’t pregnant. I learnt the lesson never to ask again.

If faux liberal white guys want to support and defend Obama, by all means please do so. But I would suggest they try to limit that support to matters of policy and not perspectives on race.

I’m vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes.

Over the years, I’ve found that dealing with white people faux pas can be tricky. If I get upset, I could quickly be labeled the ‘angry black girl.’ But if I don’t say anything or react too passively, I risk giving friends and acquaintances permission to continue crossing the line.

I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.

I love wearing black, especially leather or even faux leather! It just adds edge and a sense of class and maturity to your outfit!

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you’re in.

Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family.

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity with the so-called terrorist mind.

Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics – not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the Kennedys, but the real thing. The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the personal qualities and political positions they want in a president.

They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don’t want to. I don’t want to be a faux radical film-maker at 70. I did that. I don’t need to do it again.

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

You can have a beard and do drag; you can be a woman and do drag. I’ve met faux queens. I’ve met kings. Anything that you want can be considered drag in the context.

Choose paintings, sculptures, realistic or abstract or animal images woven into fabrics, rather than a faux zebra rug or a sullied Lion’s head on the wall.

My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.

It was the Obama administration that cut a faux deal with the Iranians that will not disarm Iran of its nuclear capabilities, and will in fact accelerate their nuclear development.