Pretending Quotes

811 Pretending quotes by 582 unique authors

I used to hide it but after a lot of encouragement from my friends at university, I've gained the confidence to come out with it. I… — Jess Smith
When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great, 'cause you're not pretending to make up some… — Michael Madsen
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. — John Fowles
When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a… — Thomas Frank
Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living. — James Gandolfini
Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying. — James Gandolfini
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… — Ashley Greene
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. — Bill Cosby
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
I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me. — Jamie Lee Curtis
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting… — Alan Dershowitz
I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand. — Leonardo DiCaprio
I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I… — Albert Finney
It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty… — Sam Harris
I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it… — Katherine Heigl
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute. — Lillian Hellman
As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very… — Chris Hemsworth
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. — Jim Henson
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. — Katharine Hepburn
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. — Oliver Herford
My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me… — Tom Hiddleston
You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George… — Anna Kendrick
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
I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing. — Barbara Kingsolver
To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible. — Jessica Lange

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