I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.
I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn’t exist, because I hated myself so much.
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
I don’t pretend to be any different just because I win tennis matches, so hopefully brands appreciate my approach and my likeability, because it’s who I am.
When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you’re just presenting – almost like you’re at the table read. Don’t go in with an air of, ‘Please like me,’ or, ‘Please hire me.’ You’re like, ‘Here’s my take on it. Take it or leave it. I’ve got a lot of other things to do today.’
Some of the best scams that you get are the ones that pretend to come from friends of yours, because you can just say anything you want, because a scammer has no idea about your relationship with that person.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
From the age of six I used to watch every England team and when I was messing around in the backyard I would pretend to be whoever was scoring runs at the time, whether they were a right or left-hander. I just wanted to be them and do that.
For as long as I wanted to swim, I also wanted to do something on TV. My best friend in high school, we used to pretend like we had a TV show, and we had this dream of being the next ‘Kate & Allie.’ Having that kind of a shtick.
I am who I am and I don’t pretend not to be single or burned. And men might not fancy me because I’m too short or too thin.
I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I’m not on TV every week.
I’m very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don’t even like the word ‘feminism’ because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I’m not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don’t want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.
You feel you can pretend to be young until you’re 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?
Before every game, I have this 30-second routine where I’ll pretend like I’m doing some stupid stretch, but what I am really doing is just closing my eyes and taking in the moment, imagining every arena and every city I’ve been in, smelling all the smells, seeing all the fans.
If you’re gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.
I wanted to be a stuntman first, and I used to pretend to be Indiana Jones and jump off roofs and slide under garage doors. I was 29 at the time.
For a long time, I felt that was actually the best I could ever hope for – to pretend to be a good person – because I was quite the opposite.
I don’t try to pretend to be what I’m not. I don’t feel I need to do anything outrageous.
I don’t much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to do something significant, and we could also mention who use post-modernism in this way – maybe we shouldn’t.
I would rather be stupid than pretend to be intelligent.
I am not saying do not give people equal health services but do not pretend that giving more money for diabetes or chronic diseases means you are going to deal with the origins of health inequalities.
During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.
Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it’s the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend.
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?
I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.
You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.
We’re in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.
The word ‘equality’ shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it’s not the American way.
Often, when I finish a film, I’ll have that feeling inside me: ‘I never want to do this ever again. I don’t want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.’
I am a person who can never pretend and manipulate – I am what you see me as.
I don’t even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type stance. No, we are getting our hands dirty, and inevitably and totally understandably we are being accused of being just like any other politicians.
People pretend to know me when they don’t. I feel uncomfortable when I feel like I don’t remember someone.
I wouldn’t say I always have the talent to do something – I think I definitely probably have a moderate amount of talent – but I can pretend to have confidence or, I guess, charisma… It’s so hard to look at myself like that.
Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.
I loved ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.’ I read it later as an adult, but I loved ‘We Have Always Lived in a Castle.’ And that brings you around to ‘The Lottery.’ You can’t pretend – it’s a lottery in which you draw a name and people die. That’s a short story, but it’s such an incredible short story.
You have to pretend to be cool, which I never am.
Even if you aren’t sure of yourself, pretend that you are… most people prevaricate.
I’m not going to pretend that I’m something I’m not just because society says celebrities should be these perfect people that have to act a certain way.
I would pretend to be the French lieutenant’s woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don’t pretend to be.
Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
I like to pretend that I’m a tough guy. It’s kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help – or even kindness. But if it doesn’t come, at some point I snap and demand it.
‘The Giver’ by Lois Lowry – I had to read this in school, and I fell in love with it. It was my favorite book as a child, and I read and reread it. I would pretend I lived in that world and that Asher was my best friend.
Every time I hit the ball I would pretend I was on that magical court at Wimbledon. And then every time I went to sleep at night I would dream about playing at Wimbledon one day.
At first, being a storyteller, it was fun to dress up and fun to sing songs and pretend to be very dramatic – all of that stuff was just fun early on.
I’m not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It’s fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in real life, not so much.
I don’t play an instrument. I pretend. I try to.
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.
You can’t just put a bubble over the Westside of L.A. and pretend like there aren’t other problems. The way that we are failing the kids in this city through our education system has a profound effect on everybody in the city, and I’m not prepared just to turn a blind eye to that.
I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.
We wouldn’t ever sit down and pretend that our friendship didn’t fall apart back in the late ’80s. It wasn’t like there was a massive bust-up. We just drifted apart.
I want to get good enough so I can play in Mia Hamm’s golf tournament for her foundation and have an event of my own someday. I’m so competitive, I don’t want to go and just pretend I’m a good golfer.
I’d like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that’s not possible. In the present, I’m trying to pretend it’s possible.
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
Your mind can’t always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you’re doing. If you’re going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it’s really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.
I’ve got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I’ve never once sent a message. I’m there because otherwise, someone’s going to pretend to be me.
It’s fun to be able to dress up from time to time and pretend that I don’t wear cleats, a T-shirt, and shorts every day.
