Pretending Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.

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

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I didn’t realize that pretending to be this ‘Hills Heidi,’ this spoiled rich girl who I wasn’t, would almost destroy me.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Acting is pretending to be someone else.

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

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.