Pretending Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.

The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

How many of you think it is time for American to stop pretending we are not Christian? If there's people in King, North Carolina who don't like that, there's lots of places you can move to.

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.

I've wasted a lot of time pretending to be interested in people who weren't terribly interesting.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who I am." The look he gives me is withering. "Do you?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

[Margaret Thatcher] was pretending that running a country was like running a household, which she knew wasn't true.

The moment the light went out, everyone stopped pretending.

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.

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.

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.

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

I don't do so well with people pretending to be happy. When I was 16, I went with my girlfriend at the time and her family to Disneyland and I was so grumpy the whole time.

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.