Quotes about Pretending

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive. Votes: 5

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. Votes: 4

Faith: Pretending to know things you don't know. Votes: 3

Pretending is such a hard game to play sometimes. Votes: 3

Pretending to drink coffee was similar to faking an orgasm. Votes: 3

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing. Votes: 3

Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think. Votes: 3

Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it. Votes: 3

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king. Votes: 3

Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there. Votes: 3

Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career. Votes: 3

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. Votes: 3

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions. Votes: 3

Pretending you are not in love with someone only delays the time of you getting over them. Votes: 3

She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work. Votes: 3

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand. Votes: 3

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting. Votes: 3

. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death Votes: 3

In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax. Votes: 3

Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does. Votes: 3

Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it. Votes: 3

Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert. Votes: 3

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time. Votes: 3

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally. Votes: 3

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs. Votes: 3

The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff. Votes: 3

Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it. Votes: 3

Acting's the best job there is. Pretending to be someone you're not is good fun. It's also a non-ageist profession, and you get to work all over the world with people you admire. Votes: 3

Pretending not to be hurt is a brave thing to do... But you know what? Crying is braver. Why? Coz not everyone can accept the fact that... Not all things are meant for you. Votes: 3

Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else. Votes: 3

Pretending is a very valuable life skill. Votes: 2

When one is pretending, the entire body revolts. Votes: 2

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. Votes: 2

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending. Votes: 2

The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one. Votes: 2

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. Votes: 2

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't. Votes: 2

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. Votes: 2

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay. Votes: 2

Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company. Votes: 2

I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night. Votes: 2

In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God. Votes: 2

Let's be the people who look at the hurting until we hurt with them. No hurrying past, turning away, or shifting of eyes. No pretending or glossing over. Let's look at the face until we see the person. Votes: 2

That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act Votes: 2

We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it. Votes: 2

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny. Votes: 2

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. Votes: 1

It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending. Votes: 1

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it. Votes: 1

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror. Votes: 1

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier. Votes: 1

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. Votes: 1

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance. Votes: 1

Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes. Votes: 1

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening. Votes: 1

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. Votes: 1

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky. Votes: 1

It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know. Votes: 1

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am. Votes: 1

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.' Votes: 1

People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer. Votes: 1

There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible. Votes: 1

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Votes: 1

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years. Votes: 1

The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is difficult, because you have to write something that will convince both yourself and readers. Votes: 1

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?' Votes: 1

My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief. Votes: 1

Being is like pretending. Votes: 0

Don't ever quit pretending. Votes: 0

I'm really good at pretending. Votes: 0

The problem of pretending to be alive. Votes: 0

I'm tired of pretending I'm not special, Votes: 0

Acting is pretending to be someone else. Votes: 0

We are the universe pretending to be individuals. Votes: 0

You gain power by pretending to be weak. Votes: 0

The moment the light went out, everyone stopped pretending. Votes: 0

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. Votes: 0

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. Votes: 0

I don't see the point of pretending we're clones. Votes: 0

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending. Votes: 0

Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious. Votes: 0

We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't. Votes: 0

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny Votes: 0

The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information. Votes: 0

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill. Votes: 0

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist. Votes: 0

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing. Votes: 0

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else. Votes: 0

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree. Votes: 0

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice. Votes: 0

You can get lost, pretending to be someone you're not. Votes: 0

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else. Votes: 0

The world is full of actors pretending to be human Votes: 0

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. Votes: 0

Don't go on pretending to be someone you are not Votes: 0

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. Votes: 0

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people. Votes: 0

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde! Votes: 0

What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved? Votes: 0

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*. Votes: 0

If I'm damned, what's the point of pretending that I'm not? Votes: 0

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat. Votes: 0

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game. Votes: 0

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me. Votes: 0

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing. Votes: 0

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult. Votes: 0

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any. Votes: 0

McHale's Navy' was a disaster. I'm not pretending it wasn't a disaster. Votes: 0

Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney. Votes: 0

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space. Votes: 0

I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending. Votes: 0

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them. Votes: 0

I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect. Votes: 0

I deserve someone who likes me for who I am pretending to be. Votes: 0

You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident. Votes: 0

Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish. Votes: 0

There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep Votes: 0

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending! Votes: 0

I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not.. Votes: 0

Donghae always act cute. Not that he's pretending but he is naturally cute. Votes: 0

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something. Votes: 0

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not. Votes: 0

An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know. Votes: 0

The only way liberals win national elections is by pretending they're not liberals. Votes: 0

I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there. Votes: 0

It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church. Votes: 0

'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter if you're play-pretending crying or play-pretending laughing, you're still play-pretending. Votes: 0

I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else. Votes: 0

Shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true, Jace. Votes: 0

One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing. Votes: 0

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know. Votes: 0

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending. Votes: 0

Kindness is an extraordinary moment and status even if it has to be pretending. Votes: 0

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending." Votes: 0

I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending. Votes: 0

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can. Votes: 0

A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician. Votes: 0

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality. Votes: 0

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep. Votes: 0

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist. Votes: 0

You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else. Votes: 0

I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you. Votes: 0

Love left us long back,we just got better.You at pretending,Me at hiding. Votes: 0

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending. Votes: 0

I'm crap at pretending to be something I'm not when I'm in my real life. Votes: 0

Yeah, pretending to ride a horse is actually a lot harder than riding a horse. Votes: 0

It's hard to remember who you were when you're constantly pretending to be someone you're not. Votes: 0

Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay. Votes: 0

I may not look like much, but I'm an expert at pretending to be a ninja. Votes: 0

I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie. Votes: 0

Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep. Votes: 0

I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper. Votes: 0

There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market. Votes: 0

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could. Votes: 0

I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird. Votes: 0

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid. Votes: 0

That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me. Votes: 0

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary Votes: 0

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art. Votes: 0

I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don't exist, not irritating me to death. Votes: 0

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together Votes: 0

to understand pretending," Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space. Votes: 0

Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are? Votes: 0

To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not. Votes: 0

Be original, stop pretending to be someone you are not, be your own light in this world. Votes: 0

You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do. Votes: 0

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending. Votes: 0

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners. Votes: 0

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead. Votes: 0

I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog. Votes: 0

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry. Votes: 0

When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead. Votes: 0

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. Votes: 0

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying. Votes: 0

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity. Votes: 0

I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby. Votes: 0

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd. Votes: 0

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure. Votes: 0

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting. Votes: 0

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be. Votes: 0

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there. Votes: 0

I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid. Votes: 0

I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show. Votes: 0

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know. Votes: 0

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending. Votes: 0

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have. Votes: 0

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be. Votes: 0

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them. Votes: 0

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else. Votes: 0

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities. Votes: 0

Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers. Votes: 0

Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri Votes: 0

We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not. Votes: 0

Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not. Votes: 0

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist. Votes: 0

It is exhausting to be running around pretending to be scared at night - It sounds so wussy actory. Votes: 0

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist. Votes: 0

We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't. Votes: 0

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't. Votes: 0

Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in. Votes: 0

Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we're pretending we're not looking for. Votes: 0

When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green. Votes: 0

I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important. Votes: 0

Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are. Votes: 0

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part. Votes: 0

Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is. Votes: 0

It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People. Votes: 0

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues. Votes: 0

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see Votes: 0

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it. Votes: 0

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending. Votes: 0

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending. Votes: 0

Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly. Votes: 0

We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man. Votes: 0

I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different. Votes: 0

Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over! Votes: 0

He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process. Votes: 0

I need something fun to get my mind off of pretending to die and I didn't have any squibs under water. Votes: 0

There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer. Votes: 0

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality. Votes: 0

If you can truly believe what you are pretending to do is really happening, then your audience will believe it, too. Votes: 0

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute. Votes: 0

We're multigenerational Squires. (Carl) Which means what? You prance around with tinfoil armor and plastic swords pretending to be knights? (Nick) Votes: 0

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. Votes: 0

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is. Votes: 0

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be. Votes: 0

It's a different thing shooting for 10 weeks in India as opposed to on a set on stage pretending you're in India Votes: 0

It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be. Votes: 0

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again... Votes: 0

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in. Votes: 0

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine. Votes: 0

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate. Votes: 0

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly. Votes: 0

I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be. Votes: 0

Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information. Votes: 0

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you. Votes: 0

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending. Votes: 0

I smirk. There is no weird pillow talk and no pretending we're soft delicate people. No apologies, limits yes, but no shame. Votes: 0

Hey @justinbieber, how much are you paying your friend for pretending that it was HIS cocaine, and taking the fall for you? Votes: 0

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school. Votes: 0

I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me. Votes: 0

I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything. Votes: 0

In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen. Votes: 0

The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't. Votes: 0

The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun. Votes: 0

Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial? Votes: 0

If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about. Votes: 0

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending. Votes: 0

I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills. Votes: 0

It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending. Votes: 0

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith. Votes: 0

I just watched the news. Seeing crazy people doing crazy stuff to other people and pretending that they're the good guys really helped. Votes: 0

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience. Votes: 0

I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer. Votes: 0

I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band. Votes: 0

There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending. Votes: 0

I'm sorry and ashamed to report that I'm not actually a Jew. I was pretending to be a Jew to minimize the holocaust. Votes: 0

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else? Votes: 0

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you. Votes: 0

It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man. Votes: 0

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships. Votes: 0

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability. Votes: 0

Women have to stop pretending the choices we make, particularly if we have a platform, don't affect others. We have to be held accountable. Votes: 0

An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be. Votes: 0

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now. Votes: 0

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity. Votes: 0

I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems. Votes: 0

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability. Votes: 0

When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades. Votes: 0

The new music, the bebop and modern jazz, wasn't music to him. It was choppy noise pretending to make music out of traffic jams. Votes: 0

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible. Votes: 0

dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone. Votes: 0

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations. Votes: 0

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. Votes: 0

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American. Votes: 0

Don't go by the anyone's idea of perfect. It's those people that are generally pretending to be a carbon copy of someone they're not." Votes: 0

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living. Votes: 0

Don't go by the anyone's idea of perfect. It's those people that are generally pretending to be a carbon copy of someone they're not. Votes: 0

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying. Votes: 0

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face. Votes: 0

Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. Votes: 0

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems. Votes: 0

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me. Votes: 0

For me acting is pretending. It's illuminating my human struggle - trying to grow and have the courage to be filmed while figuring things out. Votes: 0

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Votes: 0

Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to. Votes: 0

Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while. Votes: 0

Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character. Votes: 0

Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams. Votes: 0

And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana. Votes: 0

Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a male dominated society. Votes: 0

Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled. Votes: 0

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can. Votes: 0

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it. Votes: 0

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object Votes: 0

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again. Votes: 0

I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating. Votes: 0

Some people try to deal with money by pretending it doesn't matter, but financial pressure is something that affects us all every day of our lives. Votes: 0

There is no compromise when it comes to someones delicate feelings, the only way out is to stop pretending and set yourself free from someones life. Votes: 0

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment. Votes: 0

Every role is approached in exactly the same way, you have to make it believable and that's all. Acting is really serious, like, pretending really hard. Votes: 0

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination. Votes: 0

I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring. Votes: 0

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another. Votes: 0

Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not avoiding. Votes: 0

The truth is .. I'm okay with people not liking me. I'm not okay with them pretending that they do. Keep it real. Everybody ain't for everybody. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know. Votes: 0

Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord. Votes: 0

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know. Votes: 0

If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better. Votes: 0

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish. Votes: 0

A kid under a tablecloth insists he's a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to be invisible. Votes: 0

When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing. Votes: 0

Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all. Votes: 0

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending. Votes: 0

Feeling confident - or pretending that you feel confident - is necessary to reach for opportunities. It's a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they're seized. Votes: 0

Ironically, pretending that parenting is easy diminishes the value of family. As truth seekers and truth speakers, we need to be honest about the cost of parenting. Votes: 0

Married relationships are not what we are pretending they are. It is not the '40s or the 50s anymore - we cannot pretend, things are changing. Votes: 0

...choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything.... Votes: 0

Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all? Votes: 0

I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law. Votes: 0

Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends. Votes: 0

What's the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you're faking. Votes: 0

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced. Votes: 0

You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around. Votes: 0

Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins, these soapy flanks Votes: 0

If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight? Votes: 0

The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you. Votes: 0

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments. Votes: 0

You wanted to show everyone you could write about the black heart of a killer. And all the while pretending you don't even have your own dark desires. Votes: 0

I think a lot guys get laid pretending to be Shaggy 2 Dope because without his paint he's a lot more unrecognizable. He's not a gimpy gorilla like me. Votes: 0

As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are. Votes: 0

Sooner or later on this journey, every traveller faces the same question: Are you a human intending to be a god, or a god pretending to be human? Votes: 0

Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body. Votes: 0

I learned that pretending you don't have feelings makes you feel unhappy and unfulfilled and, ultimately, is what really makes you vulnerable because you are hiding from the truth. Votes: 0

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something. Votes: 0

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions. Votes: 0

Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me. Votes: 0

When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out. Votes: 0

It doesn't really matter what people think of me, I should just be connecting with people I really like instead of pretending to be the perfect version of myself. Votes: 0

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing. Votes: 0

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you. Votes: 0

I think ever since I was a kid I knew subconsciously that I wanted to be an actor. I would walk around the house pretending I was somewhere else. Votes: 0

Not just in Christian music but also in a lot of Christian culture there is a lot of pretending that everyone is perfect, nobody is really going through much. Votes: 0

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along. Votes: 0

Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine. Votes: 0

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep. Votes: 0

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing. Votes: 0

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years. Votes: 0

I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it. Votes: 0

Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead. Votes: 0

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth. Votes: 0

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending... Votes: 0

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich. Votes: 0

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else. Votes: 0

It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be. Votes: 0

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it. Votes: 0

I'm not scared of many things in front of the camera. Everywhere else, yes, I'm terrified. But acting is just pretending, and you are exploring feelings in a safe environment. Votes: 0

Trying something new is like daring to speak a foreign language, you bite your tongue at first, memorize and thereafter sing it as if you were pretending to be unacquainted. Votes: 0

There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian. Votes: 0

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court? Votes: 0

Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Votes: 0

If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me... Votes: 0

Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith. Votes: 0

We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad. Votes: 0

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. Votes: 0

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid! Votes: 0

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so. Votes: 0

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could. Votes: 0

My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending. Votes: 0

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak. Votes: 0

And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall. Votes: 0

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!' Votes: 0

How can love let it go when it has no place to go? And I can't go along pretending that love isn't here to stay... Catch me I'm falling for you... Votes: 0

I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world. Votes: 0

I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows. Votes: 0

There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then. Votes: 0

What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable. Votes: 0

It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites. Votes: 0

I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place Votes: 0

Love is being honest with yourself at all times being honest with the other person at all times telling, listening, respecting the truth and never pretending Love is the source of reality Votes: 0

I don't really consider myself to be a comedian. I mean, it's not like I'm sitting around writing jokes or anything. I just like dressing up and pretending to be other people. Votes: 0

I've always loved movies and animation. When I was little, I was always pretending to be some alter ego superhero. For years it was Ultraman, ninjas, Spiderman and other cool super heroes. Votes: 0

Confidence is very important - even pretending to be Confident. If you make a Mistake but do not let your Opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the Mistake. Votes: 0

I'm a novelist: I spend a great part of my day pretending to myself that I'm in a different world, being a different person, faced with decisions I pretend I haven't created. Votes: 0

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds. Votes: 0

The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less. Votes: 0

I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart. Votes: 0

We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then. Votes: 0

I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why. Votes: 0

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime. Votes: 0

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now. Votes: 0

Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free. Votes: 0

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it. Votes: 0

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God. Votes: 0

I'm too tired, too tired hearing your mean-wording, your pretending, your name-calling, sorry, not sorry, words you write, I should forgive because you didn't mean them right? Oh plus I deserved them? Alright. Votes: 0

Embracing new things often requires us to embrace our fears, however trivial they may seem. You deal with fear not by pretending it doesn't exist, but by refusing to give it decision-making authority. Votes: 0

Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners. Votes: 0

I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet. Votes: 0

I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow. Votes: 0

You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile. Votes: 0

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party. Votes: 0

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it. Votes: 0

When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you're not in a film pretending to be someone - you are yourself. It's intimidating. Votes: 0

The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance. Votes: 0

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting. Votes: 0

It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There's no point pretending they're not there. Votes: 0

I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together. Votes: 0

I always think that I'm still this 13-year old boy that doesn't really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I'll really have to do it. Votes: 0

I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs. Votes: 0

It was the perfect moment to tell her. This is my last year. But I couldn't say it. Not yet. I wanted another minute, another hour, another night of pretending this wasn't the end. Votes: 0

What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous. Votes: 0

If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But all that came out was er er er. Votes: 0

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live. Votes: 0

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. Votes: 0

Well as much as I'm sure the people next door who are pretending they aren't looking at me would like to hear what I have to say, I'd rather say it to just you. Votes: 0

Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong with being completely honest. Votes: 0

I've always thought you are what you are and you shouldn't pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you're pretending to be. Votes: 0

What are you doing?""I'm, uh, acting normal.""No you're not. You're acting like someone pretending to be normal. Stop pretending and start acting, but don't act like you're not pretending, that'll make it worse. Votes: 0

I don't play the tuba. The tuba plays me. My tuba is not actually a tuba, because it has never produced a musical sound. It is actually a giant frog pretending to be a tuba. Votes: 0

It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be why it's so strange that I could easily belong in three of them. Votes: 0

I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, 'OK, no more pretending.' You get to just be who you are. Votes: 0

There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so. Votes: 0

The political arena is the funniest.They [politicians] are always pretending to change, but they never change. They're the best actors and actresses in the world. They've always been hilarious since the beginning of time. Votes: 0