Quotes About Pretense

The last time I saw Kate she was crossing a street, the day before I left town. I turned my head and pretended not to notice her doing the same thing. These are the daily lies that she and I have lived. And the biggest lie of all is that I am here. What kind of a friend am I?

I'm starting to think being a grown-up isn't going to school or even paying your own rent. It's learning to fake it when you got no other choice.

All On is a kind of lying.

I lied and called it "nothing," simply because it was too exhausting to lay it all out.

One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.

We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

In a way, it's taken me 25 years to acknowledge that I am from the West Coast. I was always sort of pretending I was bicoastal or that I really belonged on the East Coast.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

I just thought 'Blue' was a great premise and a great set-up for conflict. I love the idea of exploring a character who's living a secret life and is going to drown in the lies she's telling.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing that in the evening you'll be doing this.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

He is very nice and down to earth despite all his money. In public, Roman likes to pretend he doesn't speak English but he is actually good to talk to.

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

I don't hate anyone. I just see the evil some pretend doesn't exist.

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

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.

Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys.

Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.

You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.