Pretending Quotes

811 Pretending quotes by 582 unique authors

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else. — Adam Levine
That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else. — Saoirse Ronan
Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you… — Emily Mortimer
I remember when I was a teenager thinking my girlfriend was cheating on me, and going around riling myself up. Pretending to cry. It was… — Robert Pattinson
Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous.… — Stephen Prothero
True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the… — John Shelby Spong
Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from… — J.R.R. Tolkien
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… — Hannah Simone
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far,… — John Donne
How many of you think it is time for American to stop pretending we are not Christian? If there's people in King, North Carolina who… — David Gene Gibbs
Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people. — Andy Samberg
When you focus on how people feel about what they are saying, you increase the level of true concern you have for others. You actually… — Garrison Wynn
There is more freedom confessing our weaknesses and shortcomings than in pretending we have it all together — LeCrae
It is a part of the function of "law" to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most of the complications… — Thurman Arnold
You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to… — Rider Strong
I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and… — Lusia Strus
We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we pretend to be,… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened.… — Sue Monk Kidd
We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union;… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and bruising myself here… — John Cheever
There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows who Ripley is.… — Anthony Minghella
I spend my working life pretending to be someone else. — Andrew Lincoln
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending. — Pete Townshend
My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: 'I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses… — Joseph Cotten

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