Top 100 Quotes About Pretending
#1. Why are you pretending to write, when I already know you're just doing that to intimidate me?
Jennifer Echols
#2. I like hard work and I don't like pretending things are perfect.
Amy Poehler
#3. Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.
Willem Dafoe
#4. The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.
Rodrigue Tremblay
#5. All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron)
Why? (Talon)
Well, it obviously isn't to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#6. You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened.
Your co-workers ask
if everything's okay and you tell them
you're just tired.
And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.
Richard Siken
#7. We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#8. The most romantic love stories are the ones where nobody ever gets what they want because they are always pretending they don't want it.
Chelsea Martin
#10. You're like this ... this goddess pretending to be human ... And I don't know which one I love.
Thomm Quackenbush
#11. I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.
Ellen Gilchrist
#12. The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.
Penn Jillette
#13. What is more important - Pretending to live OR living your life? Forget about what others think about you and your way of living. Live your life the way you like it.
Manoj Arora
#14. Choose to believe in your own myth
your own glamour
your own spell
a young woman who does this
(even if she is just pretending)
has everything ...
Francesca Lia Block
#15. Whatever," he said. "Like you care. I'm gone. Have a nice motorcycle ride back to your church where you can have fun pretending to be some kind of saint we all know you aren't.
Tiffany Reisz
#16. And people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same. The sooner you realize that, the sooner you'll want to get stronger. Even if you're just pretending. Don't you think? There aren't any real strong people anywhere
Haruki Murakami
#17. There is no use of pretending in front of people
who had repented pretending to be someone else.
Toba Beta
#18. Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!
Craig Ferguson
#19. 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
#20. I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.
Alexei Sayle
#21. 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.
#22. Being full of mischief, they love to listen;
they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,
pretending to be sent from Heaven,
and lisping like angels, while they lie.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#23. God, Liss, I can't live without you anymore, and I'm tired of pretending that I can.
Leisa Rayven
#24. I don't know how I feel yet. I'm so used to pretending, to shoving it all away and pasting a smile that sometimes I don't even realize I'm doing it. I'm trying, but I don't know.
Cora Carmack
#25. There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
Desmond Tutu
#26. No doubt it was "unenlightened" of the crusaders to have been typical medieval warriors, but it seems even more unenlightened to anachronistically impose the Geneva Conventions on the crusaders while pretending that their Islamic opponents were innocent victims.
Rodney Stark
#27. 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
#28. Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.
Alfred Marshall
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Sometimes I hate it so much," she said. "Always having to pretend." Paul gripped her fingers tighter. "This is America," he said. "We're all pretending.
Graham Moore
#32. Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
John Fowles
#33. His expression softens, his hand running through my hair, over my shoulder, down my arm. "Stop pretending I'm not what you need.
Karina Halle
#34. It's just a party. You eat some food and drink a beer and pretend you don't want to be crawdad fishing," Angie said.
"No, it's an echo chamber of sycophants and I can't listen to some bimbo recite her newest purchases while pretending I don't want to throw myself from the roof.
Mary Jane Hathaway
#35. 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
#36. It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.
Caitlin Moran
#37. 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
#38. 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 arise from the necessity of pretending to do one thing, while actually doing another.
Thurman Arnold
#39. You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!
J.K. Rowling
#40. I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.
Heidi Montag
#41. Father McNamee would have said Brother Andre had faith
he just believed more than other people. And I wondered if faith were not a form of pretending.
Matthew Quick
#42. I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one's cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family.
Sloane Crosley
#43. And that was that. You don't get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
#44. There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.
Robert Henri
#45. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.
Flora Rheta Schreiber
#46. 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 in love with me.
Ashley Greene
#47. It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be.
Dawn Gluskin
#48. Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.
Rob Sheffield
#49. You're a defiant act of creation. You're a whole solar system pretending to be a person.
Elisabeth Hewer
#50. 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
#51. Oh my God. I just got dumped by a red headed mortician in a funeral home named Crummy's, after pretending to be a circus freak at a visitation I had just crashed. I was pretty sure there'd be no bouncing back from this. -Dakota Bombay
Leslie Langtry
#52. 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
#53. My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge, stopped building on ambiguity and ignorance, and instead realized that I knew nothing, not even the things I thought I knew.
Tucker Max
#54. I'm lying here in a tent, pretending to be asleep but actually fearing for my life as I watch a bunny murderer have a conversation with our campfire.
Amy Plum
#55. I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.
Donna Summer
#56. Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.
Austin Kleon
#57. Faced with a brass band that was positioned to drown out free speech, Russian activists reacted to the potential confrontation with lemons. With activists eating lemons or pretending to, involuntary saliva reaction of the band made it impossible for them to interrupt.
Masha Gessen
#58. The worst crime I could think of would be to pull people off by faking it, pretending as if I'm having 100% fun.
Kurt Cobain
#59. I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#60. I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.
Orson Scott Card
#61. I love you," she whispered.
He stroked his hand down her back. "Yep, you do."
"You're supposed to say it back," she said, pretending to be offended because the silliness kept the fear/hope at bay.
"Why?" He scowled down at her. "You know you're my heartbeat.
Nalini Singh
#62. I know how good I am at bemoaning my process and pretending I don't care so that my final product will seem totally natural and part of my essence and not something I sweated for months and years.
Amy Poehler
#63. The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff.
Jennifer Morrison
#64. Just tell me, baby."
"Do not - "
"I'm allowed to call you 'baby'
when I'm pretending to be a criminal. That's how criminals talk,
Audrey Bell
#65. 'McHale's Navy' was a disaster. I'm not pretending it wasn't a disaster.
Sidney Sheinberg
#66. I saw them standing there pretending to be just friends, when all the time in the world could not pry them apart.
Brian Andreas
#67. We were all too good at pretending to be normal, like the world would end if anyone realized who we actually were inside--
Jung Yun
#68. Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
John Hurt
#69. Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
James Gandolfini
#70. I went to give this back to the - the lady. She wasn't there, but you left Elgar."
I snatched the pieces from Jurij's hands. "You went back to the shack? What were you going to say? 'Sorry we were spying on you pretending you were a monster, thanks for the dirty old rag?
Amy McNulty
#71. I tried to slip past her again, but she blocked my path and then stomped her foot down in front of me again, pretending like she was Gandalf and I was the balrog.
Ernest Cline
#72. I'm not pretending this is anything more than a short-term relationship, but I like being with you even when there's no sex involved. That means you're not a booty call.
Georgia Cates
#73. Be genuine and authentic, so when a guy starts to catch feelings, it's with the real you and not someone you are pretending to be.
Sheri Gaskins
#74. Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Bertrand Russell
#76. Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?
Jeff Daniels
#77. I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.
Brendan Fraser
#78. Growing up seemed to mean that the only kind of pretending that was still safe was pretending we could do without it.
Saleema Nawaz
#79. We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not.
Tommy Tran
#80. So what, then? Pete? Clyde?"
Cabel rolls over, pretending to sleep.
"It's Fred, isn't it?"
"Janie. Stop."
"You named your thing Janie?" She giggles.
Cabel groans deeply. "Go to sleep.
Lisa McMann
#81. The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
A. J. Jacobs
#82. Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our most intimate encounters.
Randall Mann
#83. Let's stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is fucking omniscient.
Kate Bornstein
#84. A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
Jeff Bridges
#85. Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.
Mike Mills
#86. I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different.
Liana Liberato
#87. I suppose about the only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
Booth Tarkington
#88. Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.
Samuel Beckett
#89. If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that don't relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible.
Peter Sarsgaard
#90. What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.
William H. Macy
#91. Pretending not to be hurt is a brave thing to do ... But you know what? Crying is braver. Why? Coz not everyone can accept the fact that ... Not all things are meant for you.
Lanie Lane
#92. When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically ... but that does not justify him in pretending ... that Christ is, in effect, Mars.
George Bernard Shaw
#93. As if I hadn't spent a lifetime pretending to forget.
Kate Morton
#94. I'm so tired of pretending like my life isn't perfect and bitchin' and just winning every second, I'm not perfect, and bitching and just delivering the goods at every fucking turn. Because look what I'm dealing with, man - I'm dealing with fools and trolls. I'm dealing with soft targets.
Charlie Sheen
#95. Well, it's like this: if you're forced into having sex with someone you dislike, you make your mind blank - you pretend to be somewhere else, you tend to forget your body, you hate your body. That's what we do here. We are constantly pretending to be somewhere else - we either plan it or dream it.
Azar Nafisi
#96. 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
#97. I'm not a liar, sir,' she said.
'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.
Orson Scott Card
#98. 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 morally.
Alan Dershowitz
#99. I wanted someone to know that before I started a life pretending to be less than everyone around me.
Ally Condie
#100. I clenched my jaw as hard as I could. It wasn't much of a stretch to keep pretending to be angry, but I tried to go all Method actor on them. Eat your heart out, Sir Ian.
Jim Butcher
