Pretending To Be Quotes

#1. Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience
but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.

H.P. Lovecraft

#2. Sometimes when Sam's pretending to be in love with me, my stomach does funny things."
"Well, get some milk of magnesia and stop it.

Libba Bray

#3. In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.

Jenny Lawson

#4. It's a long story," I said. "The short version is Diesel and I are pretending to get married, so we can get Kloughn to marry Valerie." "Does Morelli know about this?" "It's pretend." "I'm not even gonna ask if Ranger knows. Poor ol' Diesel here be dead if Ranger knew.

Janet Evanovich

#5. I knew it," she snapped. "You're no different from all men. You're just another jerk pretending to be single! I didn't wanna wrap a lie into a Christmas present anyway.

Maha Erwin

#6. I laughed. "I don't care if you're nice or not. I just want you to be you. No more pretending. I think it's time we all got to know the real Logan Lyke."
"What if I don't know who the real me is?" he asked.
"Then I guess you better find yourself," I smiled.

Micalea Smeltzer

#7. How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?

Katie McGarry

#8. While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

Simone Elkeles

#10. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Oscar Wilde

#11. But it had another layer to it, because imitating crass people was kind of liberating - like pretending to be a child or a crazy person. It was something you could do only with someone you really trusted, someone who knew how capable and good you actually were.

Miranda July

#12. It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.

Susan Meissner

#13. 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 be jumping around.

Rider Strong

#14. I could already hear the music inside, the murmur of people, kids I'd gone to school with for the last twelve years, dressed up and pretending to be the adults we'd all eventually turn into, whether we wanted to or not.

Joe Schreiber

#15. I refuse to have a life partner who spends his days pretending to be on a BBC show.

Lisa Lutz

#16. You don't have to try to be good; you just need to stop pretending to be what you are not.

Miguel Ruiz

#17. What?' Noah looked at me, all innocence.
'You're not shy.'
'No?'
'No,' I said, narrowing my eyes. 'And pretending to be makes you look like a jackass.'
Noah feigned offense. 'You've wounded me to the core with your profane characterization.'
'Pass the tissues.

Michelle Hodkin

#18. I don't believe in pretending to be someone else. I'm what I actually am in real life. For instance, like any normal girl, I fight with my mother. I mean, it is just fine. In fact, I fight daily with my mother.

Shreya Ghoshal

#19. Dagmar knew there were worse things in this world than pretending to be a caring, demure woman. For instance, actually being a caring, demure woman.

G.A. Aiken

#20. There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible.

Diablo Cody

#21. Without people coming in to our lives we never evolve, we just remain stagnant. Surely there is more to life than standing still whilst letting it pass you by. What's even worse, is living a life pretending to be someone, or something that you believe others want you to be.

Skye High

#22. The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less.

Billy Collins

#23. Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

Stanley Tucci

#24. When was the last time you felt like someone knew you and not the person you've been pretending to be. When was the last time you felt like yourself.

Lang Leav

#25. I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

Garry Hynes

#26. It was only the sea sounding weary
After so many lifetimes
Of pretending to be rushing off somewhere
And never getting anywhere.

Charles Simic

#27. We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

Ernest Becker

#28. Living a life worthy of the gospel does not mean pretending to be perfect. Instead, it means having the humility to think of others as better than ourselves (Phil. 2:3).

Matt Chandler

#29. It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

Adam Levine

#30. 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, or that we want to be, and we cannot hide that from ourselves. We know that we are pretending to be what we are not in the name of perfection.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#31. He looked like someone pretending to be a knight, which was bad. He figured pretending to be something he actually wanted to be was just asking for it.

Liam Perrin

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

Oliver Herford

#33. A girl should never be stupid unless she is pretending to be stupid to save her own life, Lina said.

Sister Souljah

#34. No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.

Alessandra Torre

#35. When I made the decision to transition, I honestly had no idea what it would be like for me to live as female. The only thing I knew for sure was that pretending to be male was slowly killing me.

Julia Serano

#36. As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.

Douglas Booth

#37. How long can you pretend to be something before you aren't pretending anymore?

Daniel Abraham

#38. The world is full of actors pretending to be human

J.D. Salinger

#39. What's the big story?" he asks.
"We're slacker playboys with trust funds, renting a house on Isla Mujeres."
"So, aside from the house, you're pretending to be you?

Gayle Forman

#40. If I'm going to be pushed off the sidewalk, I might as well step on off. You know what I mean? Stop pretending something good was waiting around the corner and be what everybody expected me to be, which was another throwaway dude.
- Lil J

Walter Dean Myers

#41. 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 start to become the person you thought you were pretending to be: a true leader!

Garrison Wynn

#42. There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.

Shannon L. Alder

#43. Pretending to him that she felt something would be easy. Pretending to herself that she didn't? That was a whole other story.

Brynn Kelly

#44. It was confusing pretending to be completely different people, particularly because it had been so long since the Baudelaires were able to be the people they really were.

Lemony Snicket

#45. Fran laughed. I still feel like we're kids, but just pretending to be adults. I thought there would be this turning point where you would just wake up one day, and bam! You're mature!

Sean Kennedy

#46. You have to be yourself," she said, more than half wishing her nature was as brave as his. "Once you start pretending, you tend to get stuck with it.

Emma Holly

#47. You have to be careful how you fake it, though, because things like that can stick and before you know it you become what you're pretending to be..

Jillian Lauren

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

Sonia Sotomayor

#49. Glamour is fueled by the dreams and imagination of mortals. Writers, artists, little boys pretending to be knights - the fey are drawn to them like moths to flame. Why do you think so many children have imaginary friends?

Julie Kagawa

#50. I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

Dennis Miller

#51. Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#52. She was playing with semantics. I felt certain that she understood the word "tip" in English. She enjoyed pretending that she thought I wanted the Duchess to be upside down with her face buried in the sewage of some manhole while her beautifully shod feet waved desperate high-heels in the air.

Caroline Blackwood

#53. It crouches like a spider, waiting for us ti get close enough, pretending to be inanimate.

Kendare Blake

#54. I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.

Sam Heughan

#55. A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

Patti Smith

#56. 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 lucky.

Chris Hemsworth

#57. And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.

Lauren Child

#58. It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?

Jonathan Miller

#59. He isn't what he's pretending to be with her. I watch him all the time. I'm going to be there when he stops pretending. I'm going to be her bulletproof vest, her shield, her fallen fucking angel, whether she wants one or not. He's pretending he's almost human. He's no more human than me.

Karen Marie Moning

#60. As for his hobby, drawing, he was better at that than most artists alive today and I always knew he was really a great young artist pretending to be withdrawn so people would leave him alone, also so people wouldn't ask him to get a job.

Jack Kerouac

#61. Don't go to the wraithland," he said. "It's too dangerous."
I smirked. "Why, Black Knife. You almost sound worried."
...
"It's not your responsibility... It should be a worldwide effort, not just the effort of one girl pretending to be a boy.

Jodi Meadows

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

Robert Breault

#63. 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 the 'tolerati' - you know, a group of people who claim to be tolerant, except when they run into someone who disagrees with them.

Greg Gutfeld

#64. The last thinkg I want to do is spend the rest of my life pretending to be 17 or 27. Now it's pretty interesting to me to see what can be said in the point of view of where I am now.

Tristen Gaspadarek

#65. I'm sorry and ashamed to report that I'm not actually a Jew. I was pretending to be a Jew to minimize the holocaust.

Andy Kindler

#66. I spent the first few months of graduate school pretending to be a student of theoretical physics. This required no great acting skill beyond the effort to appear unperturbed in the face of the inexplicable, which is as far as I can see one of the central tasks of adulthood.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#67. I've always tried to resemble a brave man.
It didn't used to be so hard - and I've had so much practice pretending. After all, when you're a thief, you're always pretending not to be. The same is true when you're poor. And sometimes also when you're in love.

Heidi Heilig

#68. Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.

James Hunter

#69. It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be.

Dawn Gluskin

#70. Confidence is very important - even pretending to be Confident. If you make a Mistake but do not let your Opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the Mistake.

Viswanathan Anand

#71. Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

John Hurt

#72. Doctor: 'I am not a hero.
Robin Hood: 'Well, neither am I, but if we both keep pretending to be, perhaps others will be heroes in our name. Perhaps we will both be stories and may those stories never end.

Mark Gatiss

#73. Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#74. We are here for the evolution of our soul. This evolution happens through the management of both the ups and downs of physical life. Evolution is halted by pretending to be happy all the time

Renae A. Sauter

#75. I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.

Kevin Moffett

#76. Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.

Boy George

#77. Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

James Altucher

#78. If you want to be saved and be a Christian, then stay open to correction. Preachers have to rebuke, or they should leave their position. The Christian who won't accept correction is only pretending to be a Christian.

Martin Luther

#79. To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime.

David Guterson

#80. She was so good at pretending to be normal it disgusted her.

Allie Burke

#81. I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

Helena Bonham Carter

#82. Being Lutheran is about having the theological roadblocks cleared away. No good works. No law pretending to be Gospel. No popes or piety. No moralism. Just the Gospel loudly and clearly proclaimed.

A. Trevor Sutton

#83. We're multigenerational Squires. (Carl)
Which means what? You prance around with tinfoil armor and plastic swords pretending to be knights? (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#84. How did I get here? We're Three's Company. Spencer is airhead Chrissy, Ford is intellectual Janet, and I'm pretending to be gay so I don't notice that you two are roommate eye-candy.

J.A. Huss

#85. My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who have pretended to be villains so well that they believe it themselves. This is how I like to view reality.

Kenneth Everett

#86. In the vastness of the ocean there is no individual "I" clamoring for attention. There are waves and eddies and tides, but it is all, in the end, ocean. We are all patterns of nonlocality pretending to be people. In the end, it is all spirit.

Deepak Chopra

#87. Acting is pretending to be someone else.

Anna Paquin

#88. As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.

Ian Gomez

#89. So, according to Vedanta, the central doctrine of Hinduism, all bodies are the clothes of the one and only Self in its innumerable disguises, and the whole universe is a masquerade ball pretending to be a tragedy and then realizing that it's a ball.

Alan W. Watts

#90. Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

Joseph Bruchac

#91. I was so used to pretending to be something I wasn't, it shocked me to be seen for what I was.

Kim Van Alkemade

#92. Standing just behind them, pretending to be a part of their group and yet so obviously not, was a shape that did not belong.

Tim Lebbon

#93. It's always comforting to tell yourself things are going to be alright, because even if a part of you senses that you're lying, it's comforting to shut it out- shut out reality and pretend- because pretending is nice.

Emma Abdullah

#94. Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

Ivan Krastev

#95. No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben

Ron Koertge

#96. If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.

Eugene Mirman

#97. I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.

Jane Smiley

#98. There is not much difference between angels and demons.
Except that the demons have stopped pretending to be perfect.

Sabrina Benulis

#99. made Weary sick to be ditched. When Weary was ditched, he would find somebody who was even more unpopular than himself, and he would horse around with that person for a while, pretending to be friendly. And then he would find some pretext for beating the shit out of him. It

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#100. There is no use of pretending in front of people
who had repented pretending to be someone else.

Toba Beta