“Yes, I hate what I am at times, but at least I accept myself enough to realise that I can’t lie my… — Joanna Chambers Copy Share Image
You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“I realize we all walk around pretending we have some control over our fate, because to recognize the truth--that no matter what… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“But when you think about it, people pretend to be someone else every day. Gay people who pretend to be straight. Depressed… — S.G. Browne Copy Share Image
She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Romance isn't just about roses or killing dragons or sailing a kayak around the world. It's also about chocolate chip cookies and… — Steve Kluger Copy Share Image
“I wasn't good at pretending, that was the thing. After what had happened in that burning house, given what went on there,… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
“At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“You have to be careful how you fake it, though, because things like that can stick and before you know it you… — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I love you,” she whispered. He stroked his hand down her back. “Yep, you do.” “You’re supposed to say it back,” she… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to… — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting… — Ian Gomez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes You Think You Have Gotten Over Your Love, But When You See This Person, You Suddenly Realise You Have Been Pretending… — Cristina Orante Copy Share Image
I was six years old and in a show-and-tell session at school. The teacher had brought coconut shells, and said if you… — Omid Djalili Copy Share Image
He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . .… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
“What if you are the awareness, and you were just pretending to be attached to a particular body-mind for the experience it… — Gina Lake Copy Share Image
Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending… — Elena Delle Donne Copy Share Image
Women are the more important members of relationships. Women are the survivors, the nurturers and the bosses, despite men pretending it's a… — Ray Martin Copy Share Image
I was never a white guy pretending to be black. Not once, ever, did it occur to me that I was being… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I taught mahself dat I won't miss you..but I still miss your presence..the way you used to laugh, the way you used… — Raghav Singh Copy Share Image
The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's… — Tristen Gaspadarek Copy Share Image
Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
“I'd been harboring this secret fantasy that he was only pretending to like her so that he could publicly dump her in… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
How can I go on pretending that everything is fine, nothing has changed, nothings still possible and some things are still the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image