There’s so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn’t make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
I’m a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I’ll just drive him around and start singin’.
I don’t think any of my kids would have a good word to say about me. I think they deny that they even know me. At school, they pretend they are Anton du Beke’s kids.
I’m crazy, and I don’t pretend to be anything else.
I’ve always wanted to do an Indian film, but I didn’t want to come to India and pretend that I could play an average Bombay girl.
I pretend to be calm, it’s not a word in my vocabulary.
It’s sometimes better to pretend I don’t hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I’m a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that’s when I’m happiest.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
If you want your rock stars that are completely 100 percent serious about themselves and you want them to pretend like they’re 25, I’m probably not the guy for that. But if you want to come and say, ‘Hey, you know that guy right there, he’s just being himself. I kind of like him for that,’ you know, then that’s me.
Let’s not pretend we’re in a global free market when it comes to agriculture. Every country protects, for good reason, its agricultural industries.
I’m concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn’t buy it, and she’s 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, ‘There is a Santa Claus,’ and she says, ‘Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?’ She really doesn’t believe.
Serious writers pretend they don’t care about film adaptations of their work, but it’s a colossal lie: We all care.
I’m not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I’m not very good at teaching. I’m not very patient.
I’m in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else’s, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn’t a part of their everyday lives.
There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.
Janaan’ is very much a romantic comedy. It’s light, fluffy and doesn’t pretend to be anything serious.
It is only from the people I’ve had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of ‘Moulin Rouge,’ for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn’t pretend to know all the answers – quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.
It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.
The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can’t pretend I know. I just know I don’t like it.
I’m from a fancy, well-raised background. We were very well-behaved and not allowed to swear. It’s the kind of place where people hide their problems under the rug and pretend it’s all perfect. Eventually, you get sick of that.
I used to do contemporary dance, I’d pretend to be a tree or a rock.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.
I don’t want to pretend that I am a little David Suzuki, because I am not. I’m really different. I have different issues. I’m more interested in the social aspect of environmental issues.
I’ve always thought of modeling as a performance, so I don’t mind kind of pretending. I kind of pretend in a lot of my poses that I am a ballerina or a hip-hop dancer or a grunge performer.
Italy during Shakespeare’s time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don’t waste my time on ignorance.
I love when someone doesn’t pretend to be someone they are not.
When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.
When my team is playing, I pretend my father is in the grandstand and think, ‘would he be enjoying watching this team?’ And that’s always been at the root of everything I have done.
All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That’s why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.
I wouldn’t say I’m a connoisseur of film. I like certain films, but I don’t pretend to be a connoisseur of films, no.
I’ll wager there isn’t a human being on earth who doesn’t believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck – and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both.
Young women are still looking for a prince on a white charger to come over the hill or for Mr. Rochester to appear. We all pretend we’re right-on feminists, but underneath that, there’s still the bedrock of romance.
Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.
I’ve got a Facebook page, but I’ve never put anything on it. 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.
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going.
It really irritates me when I see people in the public eye who pretend they do it all and I know they don’t.
Honestly, I think I was in kindergarten. I remember seeing a play and realizing that was what I wanted to do. I remember always wanting to retreat to my room or somewhere private to play pretend by myself.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
We all want to pretend that there isn’t evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren’t people trying to take us out and different things like that.
It’s not like I pretend the past doesn’t exist or that I’m not proud to be a part of it.
You can’t pretend you’re not part of the world that you come from.
The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.
Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It’s odd.
You can’t really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.
When it is real person, especially who means so much to millions of people, you have an obligation, you cannot take liberties, you cannot pretend to know. But we are telling the love story of Michael Aris and his wife, the story of a beautiful, lush country, and the emotions of a mother.
Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.
I was 27 or 28 years old when I really decided I would become a manager. I would go home from training at Lazio, grab a folder and pretend I was taking a training session. You know the way kids imagine things, when they are playing? I would do the same as an adult, playing at being a manager.
When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I’m artistic and cool and I’m doing the exact same thing I did in high school.
I will never pretend like I did not come from Bachelor Nation.
I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.
An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.
It sounds so boring – and my brothers tease, ‘Oh poor you, pulling pretend pints all day’ – but it’s very, very long hours, and you’re knackered when you get home.
Even if you’re unhappy, just pretend that you’re happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, ‘I’m being fake,’ but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.
