Pretending Quotes

811 Pretending quotes by 582 unique authors

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
To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting. — Roberto Benigni
If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry. — Robert Breault
All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you. — Robert Breault
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can. — Charles de Lint
When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use… — Andy Rooney
We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we… — Ugo Betti
Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king. — Luigi Pirandello
Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time,… — Anthony Burgess
When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into… — Nicole Richie
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic,… — Francis Spufford
I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities. — Donna Summer
I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted.… — Charlize Theron
Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're… — Kerry Washington
I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid. — Joe Manganiello
Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting. — John Hurt
Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own… — Sengcan
Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. — Carl Sagan
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… — John O'Hara
One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was a little article… — Tibor Fischer
Being is like pretending. — Mira Sorvino
The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and… — Malcolm Mclaren
I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog. — Werner Herzog
The joy of hate reflects people who get off pretending to hate something, or hate you, in order to score political points. I call them… — Greg Gutfeld
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there… — Ade Edmondson

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