Definition of Make-Believe

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Definition of Make-Believe
	Make-believe A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. Feigned; insincere. Related Definitions: An, As, Believe, Children, Feigned, Feigning, Fiction, In, Insincere, Invention, Mere, Of, Play, Pretense, The, To

Make-Believe Quotations

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
Morgan Freeman

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
Ramakrishna

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
Dakota Fanning

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
Arthur Erickson

Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.
Patrick Stewart

More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes.
Paul Gillmor

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.
Judd Nelson

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.
Morris Chestnut

Make-Believe Translations

make-believe in German is weismachen
make-believe in Spanish is simulado

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