Words matter. These are the best Pretend Quotes from famous people such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kristen Bell, George Murray, Johnny Knoxville, Kenya Moore, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s disingenuous to… pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
I’m an awful driver. I’m not going to lie about it. I’m not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There’s a lot of road rage and a lot of times it’s directed at something I’ve done on the road.
Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it’s no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it’s really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
‘I know this is going to end bad, but I’m going to pretend it’s going to end good.’ My life’s philosophy.
Since birth, my mother made the decision at age 16 to pretend she never had me. She has never spoken to me. Even if present in the same room with other people and family, she pretends that I simply don’t exist. She pretends I’m invisible.
I think any time I’m nervous I just pretend that I’m not, and that’s how I deal with it.
My weekends are spent hidden in the woods, and then I have to come back and pretend to be this very upper-crust insurance investigator. But, I mean, duality’s nice. You never get bored. You can’t say the grass is always greener if you’re in both backyards.
I used to dress up in my mom’s old clothes and play with these kids from the neighbourhood and make up stories: I would pretend that we were all vampires.
I have very high standards for every part of life – my work, my relationships, food, love. I can’t just pretend.
Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time – every time I have a birthday.
I had had enough pretend. I wanted to be in the real world.
I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
I never do anything for the camera. It’s my job to pretend the camera’s not there. I’m never moving for the camera.
I’ve had a passion for horses since I was very young – I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey – and I first began reading the racing form on the set of ‘The Partridge Family.’
When I was pregnant, I did Kundalini yoga. It was all closing your eyes, dancing around, and putting your hands together to form birth canals for people to pretend to be a baby coming out.
You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they’re acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.
If you’re not okay, you might as well not pretend you are, especially since life has a way of holding us down until we utter that magic word: help! That’s when angels rush to your side.
I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I’m not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I’d feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that’s the last thing I want to do.
I want the kids who watch ‘One Tree Hill’ to know that it’s all pretend, and that the person at the core of that character values morals, honor and things like that. You want to inspire them to look beyond what is superficial and try to find that greater thing.
One must be deliberately ignoring reality to pretend that our asylum process is not being abused.
I used to pretend like I was 27 years old and about to get married and unsure if this was the right guy for me when I was 12.
I wasn’t into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I’d go to all the rehearsals, and then I’d pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.
When I was in school with my friends and stuff, you always used to put yourself in the situation of footballers of the time and pretend to be them.
Sometimes I get ideas from childhood. In ‘The Hat’, Hedgie starts getting teased about his hat, and he just pretends that everything is okay. That’s the advice that my mother gave me – not to get mad and pretend that everything is okay. And it worked.
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
I get to pretend I’m flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That’s what I do for a living.
I just try not to pretend to be something I’m not.
He would be a very absurd legislator who should pretend to set bounds to his country’s welfare, lest it should perish by knowing no bounds.
Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, ‘I am who I am.’
The point of acting is to pretend you’re someone else and sell a story.
You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you’re singing it from someone else’s angle. But it’s always from me. It’s just a new way of framing it.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
When I retired, I took my money from the financial planner and proceeded to present the front that everything was fine. I had to pretend I still made $5 million a year.
I’m not confident at all. You just pretend you are.
You can pretend to be serious; but you can’t pretend to be witty.
Even more so since being a mum, I’ve got more of a backbone with the decisions I make because you can’t pretend to be someone else or to enjoy or dislike something just to fit in with the crowd.
Acting is playing pretend, playing a children’s game at an adult level, but with children’s rules. It’s fun to play bad guys. I’ve never been in a fight in my life, so it’s fun to play something that’s different.
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
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.
Trump’s enemies pretend to care about his past with women or about ‘children.’ But really, they hate good men, good women, unborn babies, and children – they actively target, brainwash, and corrupt innocent children, teaching them that wrong is right and right is wrong.
Most non-New Yorkers, finding themselves within hearing range of strangers’ conversation, think it’s nice to pretend they didn’t hear. But many New Yorkers think it’s nice to toss in a relevant comment.
I’m a rock drummer. I couldn’t sit down and pretend to be a jazz drummer.
The only thing that my fans expect out of me is for it to be natural and not forced. They know me really well, and the moment I start to force something and pretend to be something I’m not, they’re gonna pick up on it. They’ll literally call me out on Twitter, like, ‘Charlie, this is not you.’
I don’t pretend to have all the answers on raising children (and outside of taking care of my own that I was in labor with for 16 hours), I say do what works for you and your child.
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.
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn’t really know it.
I’m definitely not proud of some of the stuff I did as a youth, but that’s where my mind-frame was at one point in my life, and I can’t pretend those things didn’t happen. I’m not glorifying them, I’m trying to make them into art.
But I don’t pretend I earned a Lifetime Achievement Award.
I don’t pretend that ‘Heavy Rain’ will be a revolution, and I don’t know if people will love it or hate it. All I can say is that it is definitely going to be different.
I’m not going to pretend I’m some saint, because I’m not.
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.
Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.
