On a typical day, walking down the street, there are a couple of photographers and then there get to be more and more. It’s the most awkward thing, because you have to pretend that they’re not there and it drives you nuts.
If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn’t much room for anything else.
Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.
I have a thing that I do when I meet famous people, where I try to play it really cool. Sometimes I pretend like I don’t know them.
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
I’m not downplaying my age – because humankind is such that people run away from their age. Especially women. Guys pretend not to care, but they do. Age is not a good thing to most human beings. But, being an alien, I embrace it.
One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
I don’t pretend I know everything.
My heart would race when I went to Pacific Science Center because I would pretend to be an astronaut, and now I get to come back and give back to the community that I think compelled me to where I am.
A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that’s great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.
Men pretend they don’t like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.
I didn’t fall into the category of the ‘classic Bond girl.’ I had short hair – and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.
I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that’s not who we are.
I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.
I don’t need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I’ve never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word ‘friend.’ I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.
I don’t want to pretend I’m any cooler or smarter than I am.
I’d go fishing and always pretend I would catch the biggest fish. I’d stay out there for hours after everybody else left until I caught something. When I shot baskets, I was always the coach and star player and always made the winning shot.
I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
Writing is such a ‘pretend’ profession. Nobody is counting on you at all. You can’t ‘pretend’ to be a lawyer or a teacher. It takes a lot of grit to continue.
Public speaking is scary, I think. I’ve gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, ‘I’m a YouTuber,’ then that’s easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it’s never fine. In front of adults, it’s like, ‘Ahhhh they’re going to judge me.’
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they’re real dogs.
Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it’s such a pity that we can’t show how clever we are.
I’m not sure that ‘Iron Man’ is a superhero movie. I think towards the end of the movie, Iron Man pretends to be a superhero – he’s entertained by that notion. I think ‘X-Men’ is a sci-fi movie.
I don’t pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.
I’m the first person to say don’t equate between terrorism and Islam. But at the same time, I’m not going to pretend that there isn’t a threat from some British Muslim homegrown extremists.
I was terribly upset not to be in ‘Dickensian,’ so I pretend to look down on it. The part I should have played, Mrs. Gamp, is done brilliantly by Pauline Collins, but I entered this world for no other reason than to play that part.
To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don’t feel it, you have to pretend.
You can’t pretend there has ever been anyone come close to doing what I did. Nobody you could name could touch me, and I’m talking about nobody who’s around now, nobody who was around in my prime, and nobody who was around any time you can mention outta your mouth.
What I have found to be so interesting in my life and with my friends and family who have ‘normal jobs’ where they don’t play pretend for a living is that… Hollywood is absurd but very open about its absurdity.
Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.
As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can’t pretend that these things don’t affect these characters; they have to. If they don’t, then you’re essentially writing cartoons.
Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.
I don’t like it when people act extra-familiar and pretend that they are my best friends when they are actually not.
There’s something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can’t pretend to be funny.
I kind of made the decision early on to be extremely open about everything and just pretend like all of these people watching were my close friends that I could tell stuff to and be honest with.
Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
I was a big fan of Marvin Gaye, and when my parents were at work, I would get in front of the mirror, put my father’s clothes on and pretend I was singing Marvin Gaye songs.
Always come to a conversation armed with two drinks. Then if it’s dire you can pretend you were on the way to find someone else. And if it’s interesting, you can stay and down both glasses without moving.
The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.
I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn’t make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.
It’s unfair to the hard-core stay-at-home moms to pretend you’re able to have an amazing body by chasing around your kids.
A man should never pretend to be someone he’s not to impress a woman. There is nothing sexier than an authentic man with integrity. Be who you are from the start. No games.
Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that’s a ruse.
I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.
When you’re threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don’t pretend that you didn’t get hurt – hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.
Britain’s way of dealing with disability is just to try and pretend it’s not happening. A swift sweep under the carpet.
I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
I guess my inspiration is this – I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to ‘Batman’ was real and is part of this one guy’s life.
I’m a huge Russell Westbrook fan. I pretend I know him, I call him Rusty. But I love his style and someone who steps out out of the box and is bold and that’s him.
When I watch my sons play, I think, God, acting’s the most natural thing in the world. They take the ‘Star Wars’ characters and say, ‘Let’s pretend that I’m Hans and you’re Luke and that we’re on this planet,’ etc.
I make no bones about it, I’m a product of my upbringing and of the time I was brought up, so I’m not going to pretend not to be.
I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what’s going to happen next. In fact we don’t. To recognize that we don’t know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward – that’s one meaning of faith.
Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys.
I don’t feel sorry for myself, because I’m living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on ‘Opportunity Knocks.’
If I was going to pretend to be the supermom next door, it would’ve been counterfeit and a lie. I figured I had to write something out of a new place.
