Pretending Quotes

• I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Sense
  • Wonderful
  • Pretending

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

  

  Mike Medavoy
  • Actors
  • Imagine
  • Pretending

• I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Pretending

• Being is like pretending.

  

  Mira Sorvino
  • Like
  • Being
  • Pretending

• There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Reading
  • Moment
  • Pretending

• Your mind knows your pretending, but, in terms of the adrenaline and the fact that you are actually crying, and that you are that upset, and you are screaming, and you are simulating terror, your body does not know that it is not real. Your body feels really wrecked afterwards.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Cry

• Acting was my classroom in many ways and I always believed and I still do that acting is not just about pretending to be someone else, it's also about discovering yourself and reaching deeper inside yourself.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Acting
  • Classroom
  • Always Believe

• Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Pretending
  • Noticing

• 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.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Why
  • Die
  • Alone

• That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • People
  • Strange
  • Phenomenon

• The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Reality
  • Beginning
  • Moral

• In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.

  

  Matt Redman
  • God
  • Christian
  • Drawing

• You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Paid
  • Pretending

• And so, now things that are important are, for example, the upcoming elections. It's important that society demonstrate that it is not pretending that these elections are elections.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Important
  • Pretending

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

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Suitable

• What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Space
  • Frustrating
  • Armageddon

• When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Faster

• She's not my type,' Carter says. 'So what is your type?' 'Tall, skinny, black hair, blue eyes, freckly nose. Blue tinsel wig and snowflakes optional.' 'Skinny?' I squeal. 'Definitely. Pretending to be shy, sensible and stand-offish when really you're mad about me.' 'You sure about that?' 'No, but I'm hoping.

  

  Cathy Cassidy
  • Black
  • Mad
  • Shy

• I think the understanding of oneness and interconnectivity of the whole Universe is something we have innately, something we're born with. We are however very skillful at ignoring and pretending we don't have or know it.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Universe
  • Pretending
  • Interconnection

• We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Pretending
  • Designs
  • Frustrate

• . . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Thinking
  • Passion
  • Idealism

• We've got social media now where we can even create an identity for ourselves and show the world an inauthentic highlight reel version of who we are. But I'm drawn to real, not a highlight reel. The world doesn't need to see another plastic Christian pretending they've got it all together.

  

  Matthew West
  • Together
  • Christian
  • Identity

• When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Mean
  • Cry
  • Musical

• What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Feels
  • Needs
  • Pretending

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