Pretend Quotes

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

We don't pretend to disagree.

'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy.

I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

I was raised to pretend.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

I can't pretend to be objective when it comes to service or sacrifice.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you're just presenting - almost like you're at the table read. Don't go in with an air of, 'Please like me,' or, 'Please hire me.' You're like, 'Here's my take on it. Take it or leave it. I've got a lot of other things to do today.'

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

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

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.

Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.