Hoax Quotes

(on Orson Welles) For me he`s just a hoax. It`s empty. It`s not interesting. It`s dead. Citizen Kane (1941), which I have a copy of, is all the critics` darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it`s a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie`s got is absolutely unbelievable.

(On Bob Fosse) Fosse, I think, came to a high point in his life, with an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy, and asked himself, "Do they think I`m really that good? They don`t know I`m really a sham, a hoax, a phony, a lousy human being, not much of a friend to anybody and a flop ... they don`t know I`m covered with flop sweat". That`s an expression Bob uses a lot -- flop sweat.

(on his role as Father Grandier in The Devils (1971)) You would think from the critics` hostility that Ken Russell had tried to pull off some obscene hoax. On the contrary, the film is, I think, an utterly serious attempt to understand the nature of religious and political persecution. It is not in any way exaggerated. If anything, the horrors perpetrated in Loudun in the 17th century were worse than Russell has chosen to show . . . the character of the priest was a marvelous one to act. Ken Russell`s brother-in-law is an historian and he helped me research Grandier`s life, with particular reference to his thesis in celibacy. The people of Loudun loved him. He walked among the plague victims and comforted them. I started to play him as a priest and realized that he was a politician.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

He`s in his right mind, and he`s not doing it as a hoax,

I think it`s a hoax.

The plea agreement negotiated by Janet Reno`s Justice Department with Nora, Gene and Trisha Lum is a hoax. It allows two key players in the campaign finance scandal to plead to lesser offenses and effectively concludes a serious investigation that, if taken to a conclusion, could have seriously affected the Clinton Administration`s claim that it committed no illegalities in the campaign finance scandal. Nora Lum was a close confidant of Ron Brown and remains close to John Huang. Trisha Lum, her daughter, worked for Brown at the Commerce Department and worked on trade missions.