Best 169 quotes in «pretending quotes» category

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

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

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.

I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

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

Suicide is kinda dumb to me. If I wanna kill myself I will. It's not hard to die, I could do it like right now. But why is everybody pretending like everything's ok, Everything's not ok. We are more connected than we've ever been, But I feel more alone than I've ever been.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

The rhetoric is pretending, constantly pretending that I have been charged with a crime, and never mentioning that I have been already previously cleared, never mentioning that the woman herself says that the police made it up.

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

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

What are we afraid of? We're afraid of the truth. We're pretending that we live in a democracy, and we're pretending we're free. The insanity is that we live inside of the false stories that we tell each other.

When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.

Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.

Yeah, pretending to ride a horse is actually a lot harder than riding a horse.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to be an authentic old door. Maybe everything there is isn't authentic any more. Maybe everything there is is a kind of pretending.

Absolutely. No more pretending!

After writing the letter Sybil lost almost two days. "Coming to," she stumbled across what she had written just before she had dissociated and wrote to Dr. Wilbur as follows: It's just so hard to have to feel, believe, and admit that I do not have conscious control over my selves. It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would be 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.