Best 169 quotes in «pretending quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

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