To Pretend Quotes


I was raised to pretend.

What kid doesn't want to pretend they're James Bond?

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

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

Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Forgiveness doesn't mean we have to pretend someone didn't hurt us.

We don't have to pretend to be something that we're not.

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint because I'm not.

It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.

sometimes the best thing to do is to pretend it didn't happen

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

When no one loves you you have to pretend that everyone loves you.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.

Nobody's perfect and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

It's always awkward to pretend to play. I feel like Ashlee Simpson. Oooh zing.

I'm super-popular so I had to pretend to be a loser which was super-hard.

The higher the rank the less pretence because there is less to pretend to.

It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

When dealing with the insane the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Load up our guns Bring your friends It's fun to lose and to pretend

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

Sometimes it's easier to pretend that you don't care than to admit it's killing you.

It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.

It's great to be able to pretend you're tough but funny at the same time.

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

The more I like me the less I want to pretend to be other people.

Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want

I'm not a housing market expert and I don't want to pretend to be one.

With voice-over you have to pretend like youre three except you can talk and read.

With voice-over you have to pretend like you're three except you can talk and read.

You'll tell yourself anything you have to to pretend that you're still the one in control.

Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry who was drawn on the ball

I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.

If I'm going to eat fast food I'm going to McDonald's. I don't need to pretend.

The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend.

But we try to pretend you see that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make.

The whole business is built on ego vanity self-satisfaction and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else or if they're able to pretend they are.

I know this is war but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.

Mister Win-Win says it's always okay to pretend. He says that's the only way to feel happy sometimes.

One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

I'm not going to pretend I'm someone I'm not. I'm not going to put on a pre-fab identity.

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

I believe in civility. But it is not a requirement of civility to pretend there is no war.

To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it you have to pretend.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

Tell people the truth they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.

So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end and flowers never bend with the rainfall.

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

I don't try to pretend to be what I'm not. I don't feel I need to do anything outrageous.

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business or when she wants to pretend she doesn't know me.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

How could I possibly try to pretend the sunlight doesn't exist now that it's taken so much of me?

I'm a baseball fan but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions and I don't want to pretend to be

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

In 1998 I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.

I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men they are far superior and always have been.

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

It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am and if I pretend long enough I can believe it.

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah it is a shame in a way.

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

I'm not going to pretend that I am the best thing in their life and they have to be totally loyal.

I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend.

I didn't think it was fair to pretend to give of myself when I was so selfishly consumed with my own drives.

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.

I hate violence. When I hold a gun I feel death in my hands but it's fun to pretend in the movies.

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also it would be a lie.

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 had to pretend to drown. I was underwater which is scary and I'm not afraid of water but people do die underwater.

Rare is the human being immature or mature who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.

Really I just want to get on with my job which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.

Even in my age now I'm the same as before and just as fearful I only learn how to pretend to be strong

I wanted to be left alone to live my life so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?

I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.

we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.

If honesty is the key to intimacy it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

I have no idea what you just said child ' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent then move on.

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.

I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.

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.

We don't pretend to disagree.

I can't even pretend to play golf.

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

Whoever you pretend to be you must face yourself eventually.

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

You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.

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

We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I can't pretend to be enjoying this. I can't pretend I'm enjoying going out there and playing this style.

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

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 don't pretend I know everything.

Will you pretend you're my boyfriend?

Pretend and it will be true.

You are what you pretend to be.

If you don't know how why pretend?

We are what we pretend to be.

You can pretend anything and master it.

How can I pretend that nothing happened?

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

Apparently I couldn't even pretend to be normal.

I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.

your not alone Tally. Don't pretend you are

I can't know everything pretend you're an orphan.

Pretend to be great; greatness will embrace you.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

God cannot bless who you pretend to be

We all become what we pretend to be.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world.

And for a price I will pretend absolutely nothing.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.

Everything is danger but we pretend that it's not.

I pretend something scary is in front of me.

Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.

In sports as in love one can never pretend.

We all eventually become whatever we pretend to hate.

I cannot pretend i am not without fearâ?¦

In sorrow pretend to be fearless. In happiness tremble.

We love the things we pretend to laugh at.

Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around.

I'll pretend I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

Tell it to everyone you know but pretend you're kidding.

Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.

I don't know what you're feeling I won't even pretend

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

Pretend to be weak so your enemy may grow arrogant.

Wake up meat head don't pretend that you are dead.

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!

I don't play an instrument. I pretend. I try to.

If you're not a confident person pretend to be one.

Let's pretend that we're human beings and that we're actually alive.

If you want to be anxious today pretend you're in control.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

If you pretend everything's fine long enough everything eventually becomes fine.

I don't really want to get married to get married pretend.

Honored delegates leaders of the world I pretend for a living.

[Buckminster Fuller] would pretend to be deaf at the right times.

I'm sure there's a range but I think everyone can pretend.

Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.

I don't pretend to be the character I AM the character.

Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.

What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?

I'll pretend that I want you for what is on the inside.

People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

Pretend like it's the weekend ... We could pretend it all the time.

I smile and play pretend through the Morning Show in the kitchen.

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

When you meet women don't pretend to be anything that you're not.

Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

To pretend to be calm is to be calm in a way.

No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend you can't be king.

I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

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

Be wise among the wise but pretend to be dull among fools.

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

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

Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena and you're a bone!

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors.

Don't be ashamed if you don't like what others pretend to love

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money so why pretend otherwise?

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.

I don't understand what's going on but i'll just pretend that I do.

The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.

I cant pretend to be objective when it comes to service or sacrifice.

A novelist is an elephant but an elephant who must pretend to forget.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Hospitals like airports and supermarkets only pretend to be open nights and weekends.

And you pretend it doesn't bother you When you just want to explode...

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Since these mysteries exceed my grasp I shall pretend to have organized them.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized...

Nobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either

I ignore my fear. When I make decisions I pretend it doesn't exist.

I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.

We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all.

I try never to wear my own clothes I pretend I'm someone else.

Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do.

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

Let's not pretend that all of a sudden this is some new system.

A ton of athletes even if they know your name pretend they don't.

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

...and whenever I had menstral cramps I could just pretend that Voldemort was close.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

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

I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

I'm not a politician. I don't pretend to be a politician. I'm an independent.

Chemistry's a tricky thing and if I'm not feeling it I'm not gonna pretend.

I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.

I am not who I pretend to be even when I act like myself.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.

I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.

I pretend I'm not hurt I walk about the world like I'm having fun.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

If you want to be an honorable man then be what you pretend to be.

The laws of conscience which we pretend to be derived from nature proceed from Custom.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything which has always seemed odd to me.

I don't pretend to be perfect. I want people to see me as I am.

It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.

Even if you are not evil pretend to be. It will put off some abuse

Aspire to be the man you pretend to be when you're trying to get laid.

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them.

If you pretend that business is beyond morality that's the kind of morality you get.

Pretend long enough that you belong and eventually even you will believe it." - Gallen

Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.

I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25 000 a year.

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

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?

Don't pretend to be a great master and don't try to show off your strength.

Virtue must be valuable if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

What humbugs we are who pretend to live for beauty and never see the dawn!

I pretend I am a princess so that I can try and behave like one.

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

No matter what time your guests arrive pretend they're early so naturally you're not ready.

Do not pretend - be. Do not promise - act. Do not dream - realize.

And you don't have to care so don't pretend. Nobody needs a best fake friend.

You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.

We must never pretend appreciation but if we feel it then we must express it

There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.

Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin] your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.

Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.

It's hard to believe that you're really here so I just pretend that you're not here.

How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Life must go on even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.

I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.

Let us destroy but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.

Let's all pretend to be someone else and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade I would pretend to be a sad drunk rapper.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

My fallen heart doesn't know. But I will put effort and pretend that I don't know.

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

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.

Where all pretend to be thinking alike it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

I know you're a fool Jim Hardy but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise and more often despise what we really fear.

Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.

When I was a kid I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

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

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

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

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

The past is what you remember imagine you remember convince yourself you remember or pretend you remember

I played pretend games as a kid army whatever but I never wanted to be an actor.

No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.

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

There are actual monsters in the world but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren't.

There's no such thing as being cool. People who pretend to be cool have more emotional layers.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

Your body has natural healing capacities that nobody in the field of medicine can pretend ultimately to understand.

when there's an elephant in the room you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

Nothing can be more true than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.

No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed every individual member is virtuous and worthy.

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am actually.

The ability to play pretend is something that everyone has access to; you see little kids doing it.

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes but the whole of history proves otherwise.

IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.

I think that it's important not to take [acting] too seriously. It's all pretend. It's a strange job.

Even if I'm completely unsure I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

That faceless nameless and ruthless demon you pretend to fight is nothing but the bastard in your head.

Pretend what we may the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

I love people who are very honest and very open and don't pretend to be anything they're not.

Men pretend they don't like to be nagged but they love it really. It makes them feel wanted.

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

We really can't forecast all that well and yet we pretend that we can but we really can't.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not pretend you are.

Add a drop of lavender to milk leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing at it.

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't pretend that you do and at some point you will.

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

In Russia I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Listen I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.

And God 'sits in the heavens and laughs' at the proud who pretend to be more than they are.

People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what they happened it's okay. Well it's never okay. It's always ruined.

My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.

Now all that's left of me is what I pretend to be. So together but so broken up inside.

At a young age acting was so inspiring and exciting because to me it was play - make-believe pretend.

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

If you're gonna pretend to be something then you have to at least live up to what it is.

Existence is a mystery and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .

If mankind were only just what they pretend to be the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

If you want to be the best be the best if you are not the best pretend you are

No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

People pretend to know me when they don't. I feel uncomfortable when I feel like I don't remember someone.

Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock but make us economists of what we are possessed of.

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

Imagine pretend and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be but there is less effort involved.

If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone be someone no one else is.

Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.

I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else and any time I open the pages of a book that happens.

I could pretend at least and if I pretended long enough maybe I could make it into a reality.

Everyone was going to play their part honestly and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys.

If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life smile and pretend to be a fat man.

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

Other than to amuse himself why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good that the marriage won't end.

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate that it takes courage to say what you really want.

When I go home I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals pretend like they're real dogs.

As much as we pretend otherwise we want what's comfortable and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards and they do it on purpose.

It's like everything really is two ways the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

All poets pretend to write for immortality but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

I don't pretend to be able to do TV diagnosis but I think the guy [Donald Trump] has a problem.

So that makes us robbers of robbers " said Bug "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.

I could lie and pretend that I hunt and camp but that wouldn't be me. Clothes? Shopping? That's stuff I like!

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work my relationships food love. I can't just pretend.

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks..

You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50 but after that what happens and how do you approach it?

I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.

I know what it is to be hungry and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity but that is not me.

We all pretend to be very strong and then in a fraction you can just break down at least for me.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing or algebra as a language.

If you're hung up on nostalgia pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

There are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth.

The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house.

Then I break a glass and I slit my very innermost thigh so that I can pretend that I'm menstru--- well unavailable.

I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?

I am woman hear me roar in numbers too big to ignore and I know too much to go back and pretend.

I like to be myself and I don't pretend. For instance I don't dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

Change is the only constant and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.

If you have not the experience ask. There is no shame in asking but do not pretend you know when you don't.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.

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

Not too bad reminds me of some kind of meat dip best if you close your eyes and pretend it's something else.

You should be careful about who you pretend to be because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

All your life you pretend to be someone else and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists or pretend it where it does not exist.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you or pretend that they're more than you.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

I can make beleive I have everything but I can't pretend that I don't see that without you in my life is complete.

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

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

The more moral you pretend to be the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be the more moral you are.

When I write now I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her...

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by I can't write at all so I pretend there aren't any.

Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner just let's pretend we never met before.

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor but the purpose of life is not what we want but what needs to be done.

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right but I do see that they are often wrong.