Top 951 Pretending Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
Pretending that voter fraud does not exist puts the integrity of our voting process at risk.
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.
A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.
Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.
I'm not pretending I can change the world, or to be an expert on social and political affairs. But I certainly have a right to say when something is wrong.
I would love to be that woman in a scarf and large glasses pretending I'm in a Fellini movie, but that's just not my reality.
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.
When I was a kid, I used to pretend I was Han Solo all the time. Running around with my fingers pretending they were a blaster.
In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.
As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.
As a kid, I was always pretending to score the goal in the FA Cup final, and I managed to live my dream.
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.
I was pretending to be a fake, a caricature, which is something I'm not, and I was doing it out of desperation and scarcity so I could provide for my family.
When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.
We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.
Infidelity has always existed, but I feel like it was brushed under the carpet, behind the scenes. Now everyone is at it - and they've stopped pretending they're not.
That's why I liked him, I think. Another guy pretending to be human, just like me.
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie.
The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.
My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.
I need something fun to get my mind off of pretending to die and I didn't have any squibs under water.
It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.
To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.
Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.
We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.
Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.
Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.
In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
I didn’t realize that pretending to be this ‘Hills Heidi,’ this spoiled rich girl who I wasn’t, would almost destroy me.
Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.
Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.
I was bullied; I was kind of a girl in the corner. So acting was a great outlet for me by pretending to be someone else.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
Hey @justinbieber, how much are you paying your friend for pretending that it was HIS cocaine, and taking the fall for you?
. . . you may think I waste my breath
Pretending that there can be passion
That has more life in it than death
Any actor who says that they don't want the attention, and that they're tired of all the interviews and photoshoots, are just pretending.
I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me.
I wasn't out there pretending I was a conservative Democrat. I'm somebody who has talked a lot about and has done the act of running as who you are.
I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different.
If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.
This country has wasted too many years pretending it had the luxury of debating climate change.
It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.
Women have to stop pretending the choices we make, particularly if we have a platform, don't affect others. We have to be held accountable.
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.
I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.
In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen.
I've started doing Bikram yoga. You're in a boiling hot room, bending over pretending to be a locust, you can't do that at the gym.
The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.
I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be.
