Best 169 quotes in «pretending quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 tired of pretending I'm not special.

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

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.