Pretending Quotes

• Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

  

  Meryl Streep
  • Skills
  • Valuable
  • Pretending

• You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Actors
  • Pretending

• 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

• 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

• Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Never
  • Reach
  • Pretending

• I used to refer to my photos as free radicals - and maybe that has to do with this idea of navigating history. I think of the works as having this dormant illness that can really latch on to different histories. So they can exist in a world pretending to be neatly encapsulated, already framed, and fixed. But actually they are these parasites dependent on the failure of modernist history and on multiplicity.

  

  Elad Lassry
  • History
  • Illness
  • Dependent

• If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Know
  • Singing
  • Pretending

• Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Rest

• Maybe my dad just didn't need words to get by in the world. I wasn't like that. Well, I was like that on the outside, pretending not to need words. But I wasn't like that on the inside. I'd figured something out about myself: on the inside, I wasn't like my dad at all. On the inside I was more like Dante. That really scared me.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Words
  • Scared
  • Pretending

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

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Pretension
  • o
  • Men Snb

• Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • People
  • Interested
  • Pretending

• What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Walking
  • Situation
  • Pretending

• I think the hope has always been that you see what you see, and you take us anyway, for who we are,” the Rev says. “Not that we all go around pretending we’re the same. I don’t see how that helps anybody.”

  

  Attica Locke
  • Hope
  • Same
  • Pretending

• Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Moving
  • Care
  • Helping

• Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an autobiography. That's what you could say about it.

  

  William Golding
  • Men
  • Novel
  • Autobiography

• To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

  

  William Joyce
  • Understand
  • Pretending
  • Barriers

• Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Game
  • Remembered
  • Cheated

• 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

• Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Sometimes
  • Passing
  • Passings

• 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.

  

  David Shrigley
  • Person
  • Skills
  • Somebody

• We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Americans
  • Pretending
  • English People

• It’s the most marvelous and terrible thing in the world. Everyone, but everyone, is pretending to be someone else.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Everyone
  • Terrible
  • Someone

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

  

  Josh Hopkins
  • Ride
  • Harder
  • Pretending

• Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy.

  

  Bo Lozoff
  • Eyes
  • Child
  • Sky

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