Quotes About Pretense

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

We all have to wear social masks in our daily lives to get by.

I'm scared of actors with a scheme.

This whole thing has become a pantomime.

This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.

You can't have the true peace of Christ's kingdom with lies and pretense.

What is most startling in reading a detailed explanation of what goes on beneath the surface at the age of fifteen is that the same dynamics continue into the twenties, thirties, fifties, seventies, and nineties. We remain trapped in living a pretend life out of an unhealthy concern for what other people think.

Externally I had appeared kind, gracious, and patient, when inwardly I was nothing like that. I so wanted to present a polished image as a good Christian that I cut myself off from what was going on within myself. Unconsciously I had been thinking: I hope I am a good-enough Christian. Will this couple like us? Will they think we are okay? Will John give a good report of his visit to my pastor friend? Pretending was safer than honesty and vulnerability. The

Everything's an act. Everything's strategy.

Superficial.ism is a religion. It's simply hypocrisy...

Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him in a moral trap. In the end it was the saints, not the sinners, who arrested Jesus.

Oui, sa seule présence aurait suffi à m'éloigner du temps passé et à me rendre fort. Au fond, c'est pour elle et elle seule que j'écris, pour faire semblant, pour me tromper, pour me convaincre qu'elle est encore à m'attendre, où qu'elle soit. Et qu'elle entend tout ce que j'ai à lui dire. Écrire me fait vivre à deux.

Vloge, ki jih igramo, in maske, za katerimi se skrivamo, uporabljamo zato, da se nam ne bi bilo treba ukvarjati s seboj in s svojimi pomanjkljivostmi.

Portraying visual impairment is difficult. I can see what's going on, but I have to act like I can see nothing. And this can be quite a challenge.

A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but it's very limiting.

I cannot stand Hollywood child performances. It just reeks of artifice, and it's weird that, for some reason, Hollywood feels they have to make their child characters smarter than adults, and suddenly kids have the vocabulary of a college grad.

Roxy Music' and 'For Your Pleasure,' those exercises in learning and unlearning of accent and manners, are Pop's equivalent of 'The Talented Mr Ripley.' The clothes , the bearing and the voice are faked, but not yet perfectly.

When you're undercover you try to stay as true to your identity as you are. You know who you are, and you know how you normally function. If you try to put on a pretense, such as assuming a fake voice, you have to put on that fake voice all of the time. And you can't afford to slip out of it. It's too dangerous.

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

I don't want to put up this act of being a voracious reader, which I am not.

I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.

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