Pretending Quotes
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.
The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
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.
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.
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.
Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.
One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.
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.
A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.
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.
Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.
Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri
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.
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.
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.
It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.
We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.
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.
One of the benefits of being you is: You know that the people who love you, love you for you. They don't love you for who they think you are or who you're pretending to be.
When I made the decision to transition, I honestly had no idea what it would be like for me to live as female. The only thing I knew for sure was that pretending to be male was slowly killing me.
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.
Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
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.
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.
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.
Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?
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.
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.
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
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.
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.
An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.
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.
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.
I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.
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.
