Pretending Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I like playing really super-intense, live-in-the-moment characters. It asks me to not phone it in. It's impossible to phone it in. Every American boy has spent his childhood pretending to get shot.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron) Why? (Talon) Well, it obviously isn’t to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)

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

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

I'm really good at pretending.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's pretty interesting to me to see what can be said in the point of view of where I am now.

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

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.

The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I love women. I always have. I'm not pretending that I understand them, but I just love women. I love being in their presence and I love everything about them.

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

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

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

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.

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.

God’s eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us.

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