Pretending Quotes

There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

Being is like pretending.

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.

I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.