Pretending famous quotes

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.
-- Andrew Lincoln

#Pretending #Pretending To Be Someone Else

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

#People #Strange #Pretending

Acting is pretending to be someone else.
-- Anna Paquin

#Acting #Pretending #Pretending To Be Someone Else

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!
-- Anne Rice

#Vampire #Avant Garde #Pretending

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.
-- Anthony Burgess

#Political #Pretending

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.
-- Ashley Greene

#Fun #Pretending #Casual

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

#Pretending

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

#Hands #Gains #Pretending

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
-- Booth Tarkington

#Fun #Fool #Pretending

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny
-- Brendan Fraser

#Roles #Comedy #Pretending

I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
-- Calvin Harris

#Perception #Sometimes #Pretending

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.
-- Caryl Churchill

#Thinking #Alive #Pretending

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.
-- Christina Aguilera

#Needs #Pretending #Feels

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.
-- Colson Whitehead

#Monsters #Pretending #Persons

We are the universe pretending to be individuals.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Individual #Pretending #Universe

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

#Want #Pretending #Private Life

The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.
-- Dorothy Draper

#Hobbies #Finest #Pretending

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Design #Risk #Pretending

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.
-- Eugene Mirman

#Treasure #Retarded #Pretending

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.
-- Hannah Simone

#Sad #Breakup #Pretending

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

#Joy #May #Pretending

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.
-- Heidi Montag

#Humble #Hollywood #Pretending

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.
-- Helena Bonham Carter

#Reality #People #Pretending

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.
-- Ilona Andrews

#Tired #Pretending #Brake

The moment the light went out, everyone stopped pretending.
-- Isaac Marion

#Light #Moments #Pretending

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

#Pants #Pretending #Grows

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

#Nice #Guy #Pretending

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
-- James Taylor

#Pretending #Songwriting

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.
-- Jamie Bell

#Kind #Pretending #Accents

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.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#People #Being Me #Pretending

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

#Easy #Pretending #Performing

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?
-- Janne Teller

#Important #Busy #Pretending

Pretending you are not in love with someone only delays the time of you getting over them.
-- Jasmine V

#Delay #Pretending

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.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Believe #Acting #Pretending

I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you.
-- Jennifer Crusie

#Insane #Normal #Pretending

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.
-- John Boyne

#Grandmother #Costumes #Pretending

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.
-- Jonathan Lethem

#Keys #Firsts #Pretending

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.
-- Joseph Bruchac

#Soldier #Enemy #Pretending

Yeah, pretending to ride a horse is actually a lot harder than riding a horse.
-- Josh Hopkins

#Horse #Riding #Pretending

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

#Pretending #Lost

Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.
-- Katherine Applegate

#Wish #Doe #Pretending

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.
-- Lauren Child

#Potatoes #Bananas #Pretending

There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together
-- LeCrae

#Together #Weakness #Pretending

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.
-- Liana Liberato

#Bored #Different #Pretending

I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show.
-- Lisa Lutz

#Pretending #Partners #Life Partner

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.
-- Luigi Pirandello

#Kings #Virtue #Pretending

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.
-- Matthew Ashford

#Married #Pretending

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.
-- Meryl Streep

#Skills #Pretending #Valuable

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

#Actors #Imagine #Pretending

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.
-- Mike Mills

#Lying #Actors #Pretending

Being is like pretending.
-- Mira Sorvino

#Pretending

Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Doors #Pretending #Findings

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
-- Oliver Herford

#Art #Modesty #Pretending

Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.
-- Oprah Winfrey

#Pretending

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
-- Orson Scott Card

#Liars #Pretending #Said

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.
-- Pope Leo X

#Fighting #Pretending #Eternal Life

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

#Believe #Magic #Pretending

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.
-- Rick Warren

#Positivity #Wearing A Mask #Pretending

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

#Poetry #Pretending #Prose

What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?
-- Rumi

#Beloved #Pretending #Stills

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

#Hysterical #Authority #Pretending

We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.
-- Samuel Roth

#Men #Pretending #Persecution

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.
-- Saoirse Ronan

#Acting #Pretending #Pretending To Be Someone Else

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

#Pretending #Noticing

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
-- Serj Tankian

#Alive #Pretending

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

#Games #Pretending #Made

Don't go on pretending to be someone you are not
-- Sizzla

#Goes On #Pretending

I'm really good at pretending.
-- Sophie McShera

#Pretending

I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.
-- Spencer Tracy

#Depression #Tired #Pretending

I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.
-- Stephenie Meyer

#Twilight #Bella Swan #Pretending

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

#Sometimes #Pretending #Wells

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.
-- Susan Vaught

#Fear #Way #Pretending

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.
-- Ted Nelson

#People #Emptiness #Pretending

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

#Pretending #Hardest

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

#Believe #Use #Pretending

You take the flotsam," I tell her, "I'll take the jetsam." You always get the jetsam,"she says pretending to pout. "Do you ever think if poeple heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.
-- Wendy Mass

#Thinking #Locks #Pretending

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.
-- William Joyce

#Space #Conquer #Pretending

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#Men #Pretending #Snob

Donghae always act cute. Not that he's pretending but he is naturally cute.
-- Yesung

#Cute #Pretending

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.
-- Andy Kindler

#Sorry #Holocaust #Pretending

You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.
-- Ian Astbury

#Pretending #Paid

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.
-- John O'Hara

#Rich Or Poor #Class #Pretending

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.
-- Keli Goff

#Choices #Pretending #Platforms

I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.
-- Kevin Moffett

#Believe #Vegetarian #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.
-- Peter Boghossian

#Mean #Religion #Pretending

Faith: Pretending to know things you don't know.
-- Peter Boghossian

#Religion #Pretending #Knows

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

#Knowing #Lifetime #Pretending

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

#Pretending

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.
-- Michael A. Ledeen

#Civilization #Pretending #China

I deserve someone who likes me for who I am pretending to be.
-- Arj Barker

#Who I Am #Likes #Pretending

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

#Voice #Over You #Pretending

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.
-- Bre Pettis

#Knowing #Pretending #Accepting

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.
-- David Shrigley

#Skills #Crafts #Pretending

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

#Pretending

Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.
-- Ron McLarty

#Mean #People #Pretending

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.
-- Imelda May

#Writing #Mean #Pretending

What are we afraid of? We're afraid of the truth. We're pretending that we live in a democracy, and we're pretending we're free. The insanity is that we live inside of the false stories that we tell each other.
-- Jodie Evans

#Insanity #Democracy #Pretending

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.
-- Jonathan Chait

#Elements #Entertainment #Pretending