Quotes About Pretense

Maerad was pierced by a sudden grief, and briefly forgot all about pretense and masks: the world was too cruel for play.

Faking it in front of a guy's family is hardly a common occurrence in my life. How about yours?" FAKING IT TO MAKING IT

I smile. I lie.

I give him a smile I don't really own.

Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all.

A hair-hopper is someone who pretends they're rich, who really wasn't brought up very wealthy but now tries to brag that they're rich, and they spend too much time on their hair.

Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

They're not posing as being Jesus Christ all the time.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

I don't want to play a copper. I couldn't do it.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

I'm just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is pretending he's a genius.

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

I'm fine. Really," I lie.

She screws up her face in a parody of deep concentration.

The universe is a meat grinder and we're just pork in designer shoes, keeping busy so we can pretend we're not all headed for the sausage factory.