A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
Pete Townshend

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
Robbie Williams

Being is like pretending.
Mira Sorvino

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.
Richie Benaud

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.
Roy Moore

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.
Michael Ledeen

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
John Fowles

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.
Brendan Fraser

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
Albert Finney

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
Leonardo DiCaprio

I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.
Kenny Hickey

I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.
Julian Clary

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.
John Ritter

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.
Jamie Lee Curtis

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.
Lusia Strus

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
James Taylor

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.
Donna Summer

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
Mikhail Baryshnikov