Quotes About Pretense

We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.

Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't.

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?

Being is like pretending.

I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.

Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

I'm really good at pretending.

I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

I love pretending more than reality.

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

Like, I've had full interactions with fans as my brother and they don't notice. Pretending to be Dev is easy. I just act like myself except much louder.

People say to me, 'Ooh, L.A. is so plastic.' Sure, it's mountains to the right, oceans to the left and pretense in the middle, but who... has to hang out in the middle?

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

Style equals pretense.

We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

She already knew that he'd decided to leave—knew before he opened his mouth to speak. But for one last minute, she could pretend that he was hers to keep. For one last minute, she held him, and let him hold her.

The sheer oddity of life seems to me of more and more importance, because more and more the pretense is that life is charted, predictable, and controllable.

One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

Worse than telling a lie is spending the rest of your life staying true to a lie.