To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.
Hugh Laurie

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Jacques Derrida

To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
Garrett Hardin

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents.
Philip Glass

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Edgar Watson Howe

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut

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

We don't pretend to disagree.
Gene Siskel

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.
Sharon Tate

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
Terry Hands

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Charles Caleb Colton

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl Jung

Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.
Jennifer Saunders

Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
Jack Nicholson

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
Bill Laswell

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Doris Lessing

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
Gene Tierney

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
Al Stewart