I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.
Richard Price

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

I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
Calvin Klein

I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.
Willa Ford

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

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.
Jonathan Frakes

I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.
Julia Roberts

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
Ludwig von Mises

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
Marya Mannes

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
Gwen John

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

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
Doug Coupland

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.
Colin Hay

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
Dashiell Hammett

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.
Michael Aston

Let's not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system.
Mark Shields

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
Christopher Morley

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.
Jacques Rivette