I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
When I’m writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we’re cavemen, we’re sitting around the fire, and I’m telling you stories. If I bore you, you’re probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
If the vote that is progressive is split then all that does is open up the path for the Brexit party and allow it to pretend it represents the majority view in this country.
In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral code.
I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
The issue of migration has played a key role in all of our member states, wherever we are. Only we, as a European Union, can convince our citizens that we do have an answer to this – not deny migration, not pretend you can solve it by building fences and walls, not pretending we can solve it by letting everybody in.
I can’t pretend I’m some robot that’s always neutral. I need to share my opinion – and sometimes aggressively so.
Think small. Don’t pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of ‘Think Like a Freak,’ really.
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
I can’t pretend to being particularly happy about Jeremy Corbyn being leader of the Labour party.
I ended up gettin’ a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss – I liked Gene the best.
When I was younger, my sister thought it was funny to pretend to punch me in the face because my mom was concerned about my teeth falling out. They were loose for a long time, and she knocked out my teeth.
A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That’s consistent with who I am. I don’t pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
I’m a performer. I’ve just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.
It’s very difficult to pretend you’re throwing a car.
I spent a lot of time on film sets with my dad at work, and as a kid, that’s a very appealing thing, to watch grownups get to play dress-up and pretend that they’re different people – and then get paid for it!
In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.
My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don’t speak English.
We’ve all been watching stories about heterosexuals forever… As a gay kid, you are always having to translate. You are always having to pretend like you are one of the other characters. You’re not seeing your life accurately reflected.
Artists can be themselves. They don’t have to pretend to be somebody they’re not.
I can’t pretend to do something I don’t like.
I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.
But I don’t let my bad feelings rule my life. I acknowledge them because I can’t pretend they aren’t there.
I mean, it’s fine when you’re a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, ‘I’ve got this great game of pretend,’ and you play… As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish – it is weird but it’s wonderful.
Europeans don’t like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don’t spy.
I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.
If I have to pretend to be anything else than French, then I know it’s work for me. It’s not that it scares me, but it’s work. I cannot just pop up on the set and say ‘Okay, today I’m Italian!’
I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.
I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them – I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else. My parents also took me to ballet school, and there I think I was able to start communicating those feelings or emotions – I danced for so many years.
I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.
Don’t pretend to know everything. I’ve been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.
I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.
Change is the only constant, and to turn one’s back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.
Ed Miliband is obviously a mild guy. I don’t expect him to pretend to be a pugilist.
I don’t pretend to be Joy Division or New Order. What I do is very straight forward: it’s an interpretation and a celebration of the music, with different people. Everyone looks at it and knows exactly what I’m doing.
Who doesn’t want to come and put fangs on, and a funny mad costume, and pretend to be like a really over-the-top bloodsucking monster for a couple of days? It’s like dress-up.
I think it’s a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they’re, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we’re not that.
I’m not going to pretend that I never fantasized about winning the Hugo. Or the Nebula, for that matter. I just never thought it was an actual real possibility.
As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn’t mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I’d end up making people laugh.
When you act, you’re being asked to pretend in a very rigid, controlled environment. It’s very un-childlike. So a lot of times, when you put kids in that situation, you hope they have a better support system outside of what they’re doing to bring them back to reality at the end of the day and to keep them well-rounded.
I do think, however, that there’s a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There’s a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don’t claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
While I am grateful for the friendships and relationships that I have with my Republican colleagues, it would be naive to pretend that those friendships will change the way that major policies are enacted in Arizona.
I’ve never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I’m like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.
As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It’s as though he’s saying, ‘That’s how I feel about the world, and I don’t care what people may say.’ His music is pure and honest. Beethoven never pretends to be anybody else.
One time, I went to a Bruins game and I had to pretend that I was a Bruins fan, but I’m truly a Habs fan.
I’ve had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I’m not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.
I don’t hate anyone. I just see the evil some pretend doesn’t exist.
Being a sci-fi geek, it was just lovely to be on a show where I pretend I’m in outer space. That’s always been my dream: to pretend to be out in space or actually be out in space.
I am young, and that reflects in my designs. I can’t pretend to be 40.
Some filmmakers set out to re-create the theater experience they got on Broadway. They kept everything the same. They shot the original casts. We reinvent the whole thing, look at it solely as a movie. We pretend that nobody saw ‘Chicago’ or ‘Hairspray.’
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let’s Pretend, it’s often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
Acting gives me the opportunity to be fascinating on stage or, I suppose; properly speaking, pretend to be fascinating.
Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.
As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn’t very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.
