Pretend Quotes

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.

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

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.

I was raised to pretend.

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

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

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.