Pretend Quotes

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

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.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

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

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

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

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

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

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.

I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball.

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.

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

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.