I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
Ziyi Zhang

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
Roy Lichtenstein

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.
Loretta Lynn

I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.
Samuel West

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.
Martin Short

I pretend something scary is in front of me.
Heather O'Rourke

I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.
Andre Agassi

I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
Carl Wilson

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.
Helen Garner

I think that episode in the third season was great. I'm really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he's a rock star.
Bradley Cooper

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.
Benicio Del Toro

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.
David Byrne

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball.
Monica Seles

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I was raised to pretend.
Anne Heche

I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?
Brian Celio

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.
Jonathan Lethem

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.
David Hyde Pierce

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.
Jay Alan Sekulow

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
J. Milton Hayes