Pretending Quotes

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

Love, Present, Fatherhood

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

Time, Nice, Yourself

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
Paulo Coelho

Hurt, Someone, Soul

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
Jim Henson

Life, Keep, Write

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
Drew Barrymore

Yourself, Risk, Dare

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
J. K. Rowling

Work, Failure, Why

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
Jeff Bridges

Work, Great, Hard

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.
Christina Aguilera

Keep, Makes, Ourselves

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.
Chris Hemsworth

Job, Around, Lucky

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
George Santayana

Moment, Mockery, Caricature

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
Serj Tankian

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

Funny, School, Around

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
David Bowie

Music, Nothing, Happen

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford

Art, Modesty, Gentle

I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Weird, Games, Turned

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'
Tom Hiddleston

Life, Work, Strong

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

Gay, Start, Stars

I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today.
Sarah Palin

Today, Past, Trying

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.
Amy Winehouse

Stupid, Feminist, Easier

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.
Neil Young

Blues, Blue, Album

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.
Helena Bonham Carter

Reality, Liked, Reinvent

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

Mother, Game, Party

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
David Mamet

Gay, Person, Acceptance

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.
David Letterman

Good, Courage, Human

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.
Jessica Lange

Work, Great, Terrible

Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.
Ashley Greene

Love, Fun, Someone

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

Audience, Continue, Pretend

There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible.
Diablo Cody

Time, Sunday, Fake

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.
Charles de Lint

Good, Sometimes, Mood

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

Audience, Continue, Pretend

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