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Fooling Quotes

From harmless play to self-aware honesty about pretending.

These fooling quotes range from a candid memory of friends experimenting with drugs to a performer wondering, role after role, when audiences will finally catch on. For more on companionship, see our Friends quotes.

I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a...

Quotes by Adam Yauch

A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.

Quotes by Tommy Rettig

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Quotes by Tom Wolfe

I catch myself every once in a while doing that weird thing that I see famous people do, where they have sunglasses and hats on and grow out beards thinking that they're fooling people. Dude, you're not fooling anyone: you...

Quotes by Sterling K. Brown

Experience Quotes

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

Quotes by Sparky Anderson

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

Quotes by Penn Jillette

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing...

Quotes by Paul Stanley

I felt that I was fooling myself eating meat considering my inability to kill an animal, so I just thought I'd better be honest to myself and stop eating meat.

Quotes by Patrik Baboumian

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Quotes by Paracelsus

Friends Quotes

Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.

Quotes by Mariano Rajoy

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Quotes by Margaret Mead

The fact of the matter is that if we were going to do anything about Gaddafi, it should have been at the beginning. And by fooling around like this as long as we have, we have wasted an opportunity that...

Quotes by Lawrence Eagleburger

Every time I get a role, I'm surprised. It's like, 'Alright, when am I going to stop fooling them?'

Quotes by Johnny Simmons

You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.

Quotes by John Carroll Lynch

Funny Quotes

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.

Quotes by Joey Skaggs

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

Quotes by Joe Miller

I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.

Quotes by Greil Marcus

As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls?

Quotes by Greta Van Susteren

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

Quotes by George Galloway

Good Quotes

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

Quotes by Gene Tunney

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the quote about drugs referring to?
It's a candid recollection of friends experimenting with drugs during a certain period, offered without elaboration on outcomes.
Is journalism mentioned in this topic?
Yes, one quote dismisses a certain style of sensational reporting as frivolous nonsense rather than legitimate journalism.
Does an actor talk about self-doubt here?
Yes, one describes being surprised every time they land a role, half-joking about when audiences will stop being fooled by their casting.
Is there a quote about disguises?
There is — one admits that sunglasses, hats, and beards rarely actually fool anyone trying to avoid recognition in public.
How does this topic connect to Funny quotes?
The playful, self-aware tone in several of these lines overlaps with our Funny quotes, which cover humor from a wider range of voices.

One quote also calls out sensational journalism as trifling and fooling rather than real reporting, while another admits that hats and sunglasses rarely fool anyone. Continue with our Experience or Good quotes.