You’d think maybe I can pretend I’m an expert on love, but I’m not.
We, in America and Great Britain, have never had to live with evil and ignore it, or pretend it wasn’t happening, as people did all over Europe, and indeed, even in Germany herself.
I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
I have a hard enough time speaking for myself – I don’t pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.
I don’t want to show my pain. I resisted; I hesitated. I tried to be invisible, to pretend that nothing was wrong. It’s impossible; it’s not like me.
When I was in theater school, we did these relationship exercises – you would play my sister, and I’d give you all this information about my sister, and then we’d get up and perform this scene, and you’d pretend to react as my sister. It was like therapy!
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
I don’t pretend anything anymore. I don’t have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.
I loved being outside. We’d hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.
We don’t pretend to disagree.
I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them I’d never had pizza before, and they’d bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. It’s really fun.
I don’t pretend; I’m honest. Sometimes that causes a problem; I always say what I think.
I’ve been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I’m not a grown-up – well, at least for two hours a night!
I am fascinated by people’s flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don’t have.
We spend to pretend that we’re upper class. And when the dust clears – when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity – there’s nothing left over. Nothing for the kids’ college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.
I liked theatre because I could hide behind a role I was playing, but now, I just love being on stage. I don’t pretend that I’m anyone else, I just show my full range when I am up there, and it’s very liberating.
If you’re going to pretend to be somebody you’re not – which is the whole point of being a rock star – then why not just invent fake characters and have them do it all for you?
It’s fun to pretend you’re good at something you know you wouldn’t be good at in real life.
Many things embarrass me, but reading isn’t one of them. I’m not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
One day, when this modeling thing is over for me and I don’t enjoy it anymore, I’m just gonna be gone! You know? I’m not here for fame or money. I’m not going to stick around and pretend everything is cool if I’m over it. When it’s done, I’m out. Ciao.
I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.
Why do we have to pretend we’re not in the sales game? I didn’t sign on to be a salesman. I signed on to be an actor.
There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.
Fall means that all of the Joy of Summer is officially over, and all of those hack fall activities that people seem to pretend to enjoy to make themselves feel better begin.
I’m not good at being a picture-perfect pop star, happy all the time. If I’m having a bad day, I can’t pretend. I’m always a bit unhappy, but that’s just me. I like dwelling in my sadness.
I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work.
It’s hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn’t exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you’ll be forever young and happy.
Pretend to be dumb, that’s the only way to reach old age.
I don’t know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.
Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let’s say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don’t pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn’t go with my personality.
The first two or three movies I did, I’d be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn’t care, but inside, I was shaking. I’ve been weaning myself off that.
While men pretend not to judge women for the way they look, we go to great lengths to pretend we don’t care, either.
I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don’t pretend that.
Everything isn’t permanent, so don’t pretend that it is. Everything’s supposed to move and shift.
Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn’t just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn’t have a role to play beyond stringing words together.
I wonder: when a Jehovah’s Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He’s not home?
I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.
I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don’t think it’s very healthy. I’m always picking my flaws. It’s a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.
I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the only place open all night. Truman Capote in the frozen foods. Andy Warhol over in vegetables.
Real heroes don’t wear capes. Real superheroes wear uniforms and badges and stethoscopes! Real superheroes are members of our military, law enforcement, and first responders. Pretend superheroes wear capes!
I couldn’t be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn’t feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.
An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I’m going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
The idea that Donald Trump is a conservative is a complete farce. He is a conman who pretends to be a conservative.
I don’t speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don’t pretend to speak Spanish, and I don’t want anyone to think that I can.
I try to be a better dad and husband than I do pretend rock star.
When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you’ve ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.
We live in this realm where things exist but we pretend they don’t exist, so that makes them, you know, nonexistent.
There’s a repression against mothers where we’re expected to be full-time workers and pretend we’re not mothers, and then expected to be full-time mothers who pretend we’re not working. Simultaneously, within the hours of the week that exist.
It is not hard to see why Trump might choose Putin as his fantasy friend. Putin is the real-world version of the person Trump pretends to be on television.
I’m not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
I recommend people develop a fear of elevators, like I have. Even if something is on the tenth floor, I’m walking up. If you don’t have claustrophobia, pretend you do and take the stairs everywhere! It ends up being so healthy!
Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.
I used to cold call labels and pretend I was one of their artist’s attorneys. I’d say, ‘This is Jay-Z’s attorney, we need to speak with Craig Kallman,’ you know, owner of Atlantic, and they’d say, ‘Right away,’ and then I’d be like, ‘Please just listen to my demo tape!’
