Quotes About Not Pretending To Be Someone Else

#1. Acting was my classroom in many ways and I always believed and I still do that acting is not just about pretending to be someone else, it's also about discovering yourself and reaching deeper inside yourself.

Kristen Stewart

#2. I'm not the type to look back over my shoulder, or at least I try hard not to be. Gone is gone; pretending anything else is a waste of time.

Tana French

#3. I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.

Spencer Tracy

#4. 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

#5. The enemy of my enemy is my friend? That's bullshit. There are always more than two sides. Pretending it's only one or else the other is what let that sonofabitch carry so much weight in the OPA for as long as he did." "He

James S.A. Corey

#6. Because think how we'll feel in the morning. Think how much worse it will be pretending that we don't mean anything to each other in front of everyone else after we've spent the night together, even if all we do is sleep. It's like having just a little bit of a drug - it only makes you want more.

Cassandra Clare

#7. Look, he isn't even concerned."
I poured the tea. "He's concerned, Mother. He just doesn't panic, because he's in charge and if he panics, everybody else will panic."
"I can jog around the room pretending to scream if you would like," Jim offered.

Ilona Andrews

#8. I am always alone, pretending to be someone else or lost in a vast emptiness. I miss life. I miss conversation and laughter and shared joy and hurt. I miss dancing and painting. I miss waking up to a day with no evil in it - at least, none that I can see.

Stacey Jay

#9. I think ever since I was a kid I knew subconsciously that I wanted to be an actor. I would walk around the house pretending I was somewhere else.

Kelly Blatz

#10. She never felt like she belonged anywhere,except for when she was lying on her bed, pretending to be somewhere else.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#12. Happiness isn't what happens when you whistle along, pretending bad things don't exist ... Happiness is earned, like everything else. It's achieved.

Marisa De Los Santos

#13. And I'm sure everyone else would too if you only allowed them to see more of who you really are, rather than pretending to be someone you're not!

Adele Rose

#14. People are afraid of anybody who is different: It makes them worry everyone else is different too, and just pretending to be all the same. James

Cassandra Clare

#15. 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

#16. Bullfrak," Miranda said. "It's for power. If you're pretending this is about something else, even to yourself, then frak you, you delusional murdering excuse for a nutty professor.

Gwenda Bond

#17. I'm not scared of many things in front of the camera. Everywhere else, yes, I'm terrified. But acting is just pretending, and you are exploring feelings in a safe environment.

Julianne Moore

#18. There's no such thing as a normal highschool experience, Thorny. You assume everyone else is happy all he time and living an ideal life. You don't get that other people are pretending too.

Chelsea Sedoti

#19. Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

James Gandolfini

#20. I've always thought you are what you are and you shouldn't pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you're pretending to be.

Julian Barnes

#21. When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn't really know it.

Aneurin Barnard

#22. I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Paulo Coelho

#23. 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

#24. It's time to stop pretending that you're somebody else. No, you can't change this world, but you can change yourself.

Glenn Frey

#25. I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Kurt Cobain

#26. Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

Alex Gaskarth

#27. If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

Oprah Winfrey

#28. All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

Robert Breault

#29. I realized that's all I've ever wanted. You're all I've ever wanted, Evangeline. I'm tired of pretending that's not true. I'm tired of thinking I can replace you with someone else. Anyone else. I'm tired of not being with you.

D.L. White

#30. Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone

Margaret J. Wheatley

#31. Your mother was the love of my life. Not everyone gets to have that. I did. Yes, I miss her, but I'm happier being alone and missing her than pretending not to miss her while being with someone else. Does that ridiculous statement make sense?"
"Yes."
"Good.

Tracy Guzeman

#32. I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.

Jamie Bell

#33. That was the danger of pretending to be someone else all the time. If you do it long enough, eventually you start to become that person.

Tracy Rozzlynn

#34. Something out of childhood whistles through this space, a sense of games and half-made selves, but it's not that you're pretending to be someone else. You're pretending to be exactly who you are. That's the curious thing.

Don DeLillo

#35. 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

#36. Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Katharine Hepburn

#37. 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

#38. You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.

Ian Astbury

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

Adam Levine

#40. It's funny how once you start pretending, you realize how much everyone else is too.

Gayle Forman

#41. The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. "Have you ever done this before?"
"Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

Brent Weeks

#42. Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.

Diedrich Bader

#43. On my first TV job I didn't have a clue. They'd tell me to hit my mark and I had no idea what they meant. You just pick it up. And ultimately, all it's really about is pretending to be someone else.

Sheridan Smith

#44. Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.

Emma Watson