Pretend Quotes

The thing is, is to raise your hand. It's not to hide, and it's not to try and pretend or do anything like that. You raise your hand, that's the best thing about it.
Liza Minnelli

Best, Try, Hand

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

I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.
Robert Smith

Someone, Fact, Once

Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!
Emily Mortimer

Character, Through, Getting

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
Samuel L. Jackson

Home, Movies, Friends

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

Reality, Different, Cannot

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.
Amy Poehler

Experience, Amazing, Mother

If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.
Diane Lane

Career, Control, Made

The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren't actually hurt. If someone gets hit in the face with a bat, falls down, and gets back up, it's funny. If they stay down and their jaw is wired shut in the next scene, it's really tragic and weird. You have to pretend it doesn't hurt.
Chris Pratt

Funny, Hurt, Pain

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.
Thomas Kretschmann

Time, Energy, Desire

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

When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.
Ryan Seacrest

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Renata Adler

History, Experience, Generation

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.
Peter Jennings

Continue, Anchor, Reporters

I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road.
Kristen Bell

Time, Good, Long

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

Great, Rock, Sleep

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.
Kenny Loggins

Saying, Thought, Else

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.
Helen Mirren

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.
Kat Dennings

Moment, Might, Mistake

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.
Suzanne Farrell

Love, Great, Two

I'm not going to pretend that I am the best thing in their life and they have to be totally loyal.
Graham Coxon

Life, Best, Loyal

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

Actor, Stage, Theater

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
Martin Freeman

Stupid, Long, Words

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.
Derek Jacobi

Live, Working, Actor

You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors.
Derek Jacobi

Live, Help, Around

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.
Neil LaBute

Care, Bad, Happen

I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are.
Donnie Wahlberg

Keep, Stage, Image

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.
Justin Cronin

Everything, Full, Writers

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.
Skeet Ulrich

Home, Country, Play

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