Pretend Quotes

I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.
John Cusack

Good, Actually, Chemistry

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Mother, Girl, Pretty

I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.
Rihanna

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
John le Carre

Experience, Wise, Parents

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'
Geena Davis

Put, Wrong, Stand

'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy.
Johnny Knoxville

Life, Good, End

Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.
Christian Bale

Nice, Somebody, Grow

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.
Paul Feig

Line, Kid, Says

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.
Nigel Farage

Become, Effort, Used

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
Harlan Coben

Writing, Fire, Big

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
Maria Callas

Woman, Serious, Artist

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
Mac Thornberry

Dangerous, Actually, Head

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.
Julie Burchill

Love, Medical, Mind

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
Marat Safin

Left, Celebrity

I could lie and pretend that I hunt and camp, but that wouldn't be me. Clothes? Shopping? That's stuff I like!
Ryan Seacrest

Lie, Stuff, Shopping

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.
Sloane Crosley

Funny, Humor, Yourself

While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist.
Harry Browne

Important, While, Exist

A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That's consistent with who I am. I don't pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.
Ryan Seacrest

Friend, Lie, Basketball

I don't really want to get married to get married pretend.
Cynthia Nixon

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?
Charles de Secondat

Talk, Blind, Productive

Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.
Cat Deeley

Love, Win, Another

I love people who are very honest and very open and don't pretend to be anything they're not.
Cat Deeley

Love, Honest, Open

You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.
Penelope Wilton

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.
Shakira

Crazy, Girl, Trying

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.
Anthony Edwards

God, Hope, Real

I don't even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type stance. No, we are getting our hands dirty, and inevitably and totally understandably we are being accused of being just like any other politicians.
Nick Clegg

Getting, Dirty, Hands

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.
Chris Martin

Someone, Feelings, Sometimes

When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the 'Golden Globes' and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors d'oeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech.
Lea Michele

Mother, Together, She

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Reality, Different, Cannot

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