Pretending Quotes · Page 14

Pretending that you're very busy talking over phone when you see someone you want to avoid or don't want to talk to.

— Raghav Singh

Growing up everyone wanted to play pretend, now I do it everyday, pretending like I'm okay.

— Author Name

When you've been hiding your feelings for so long and pretending everything is okay, it just becomes second nature to you.

— Anonymous

If you lie to get people to like you they'll like who you're pretending to be not who you really are.

— SONYA PARKER

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

— Roberto Benigni

Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.

— Sonia Sotomayor

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

— Charles de Lint

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

— Robert Gottlieb

Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just…

— Jerry Saltz

If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of…

— Peter Sarsgaard

For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child…

— Brian Cox

My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits…

— Tucker Max

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're…

— John Ritter

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert…

— Alexei Sayle

I don't believe in pretending to be someone else. I'm what I actually am in real life. For instance, like any normal…

— Shreya Ghoshal

As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting…

— Ian Gomez

One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was…

— Tibor Fischer

“Perhaps he too is pretending to be someone he isn't. Perhaps we all are: everyone in here - the people to my…

— Sophie Hannah

When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being…

— Christopher Booker

His mouth captured hers, trying to show her with his kiss what he was still learning to express in words. He loved…

— Julia Quinn

I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every…

— Mikhail Lermontov

And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred…

— Patrick Stewart

We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge,…

— John Burnside

It's hard when your special someone starts to ignore you. It's harder when you are pretending that 'you don't care.'

— Kaceem Aveiro

“I may have humored you in the past, but I’m done pretending. From now on, please accept that this is what I…

— Kelsey Sutton

If only I put half as much effort into school as I do pretending not to care whether you text me first.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Neil Young

I trusted you when u said the words I love you though on the back of my head i felt that u…

— Peter

The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.

— Kurt Cobain

There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market.

— Jean-Luc Godard

So this was my friend and myself pretending to be myself and my man. this is the convo that I wish we…

— Nikki

The hardest thing about realizing you dont love me is that you apant so much time pretending that you did:>-

— Realizing You Dont Love Me

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

— Robert Breault

“Ignorance is seeing a living animal and then pretending that it has no soul just like you, the human being.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing.

— Bryan Adams

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

— Oliver Herford

“pretending often ends when you allow nonpretenders access to the better, safer worlds you create for yourself.”

— Matthew Quick

“We’re all odd balls; some people are just better at pretending to be even”

— Benny Bellamacina