Pretending Quotes

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard.

It's a different thing shooting for 10 weeks in India as opposed to on a set on stage pretending you're in India.

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.