Pretend Quotes

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

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 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.

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.

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.

I try to be a better dad and husband than I do pretend rock star.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.