Best 169 quotes in «pretending quotes» category

who did I think we were. who did I think I could make you. this is the oldest mistake, to confuse wanting with magic. silence is the undoing of every spell, and we are experts in the unsaid. even now, I forget to put us in past tense. as if the air in this city were the same. as if love is anything like its speaking.

Who we are usually depends on who is—or who we think is—looking at us.

Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth we just want to be ourselves.

You never pretend when you are all alone with yourself!

Worried about fitting in, being part of a group, feeling accepted? People gather in groups of similar interests, but these interests are usually based on external preferences and attires. “We think that if other people like this sport or activity, they’ll accept us without an interview or further questions, and we need that because we are afraid of standing naked in front of others, of showing whom we really are underneath the fake smiles and bland expressions of anger and pain: this nakedness is one of the heart and mind. “It’s within these groups that most people find their ‘soul-mates’ and ‘fall in love’ with the person they’ll never get to know for real. “Little did you know, you have to keep pretending to be someone else, while your partner is exhausted from having to put on a daily show just to please you.

You can trust bad liars.

You have to pretend like you know what you’re doing before you know what you’re doing.

Acting is pretending to be someone else.

You shattered the remainder of my heart, yet you expect me to be okay with it day after day.

You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldn’t have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be real with each other

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

Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

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

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

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.

Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we're pretending we're not looking for.

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.

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

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.

If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But all that came out was er er er.

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

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

I'm crap at pretending to be something I'm not when I'm in my real life.

I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie.

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left

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.

I keep "leave me alone, I'm busy " pretending to work sign with me because my dad once told me to find a job that you would do for free and I would do this job for free. But I would be a performer for free because that's all I've ever loved to do. I've worked so hard to get to the point where work doesn't feel like work. So when I come to work, I'm actually coming to play - I'm coming to recess. So, when you see me, leave me alone, I'm busy ... pretending to work.

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.

I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper.

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.

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

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

I'm tired of pretending I'm not special.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.

It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.