Quotes About Pretense

Trying to be so bad is bad enough Don't make me laugh by talking tough Don't put your heart out on your sleeve When your remarks are off the cuff

Each having thus delivered himself of words which meant nothing, both now seated themselves and proceeded to look mighty grave.

It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.

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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something.

Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something. But that's only because we have to be that way in order to get on with our lives. Just because people are playing doesn't mean their hearts aren't in it.

Anche dopo aver sofferto, dopo avere versato lacrime come sangue, cariche di dolore, non provavamo alcun sollievo. Semplicemente sopportavamo, fingendo che tutto andasse bene.

Giocavo a marito e moglie, a padre e figlia, a fare l'adulta, tutto era un gioco per me. Ma era un modo come un altro per cercare di continuare a vivere, e non significava affatto che non fossi sincera.

The cost of the pretense was the loss of the real human texture underneath, but since we all thought that was what was expected of us, that was what we delivered.

the woman I knew didn't exist. You had given phony references

He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.

Party animosity was concealed under a veil of studied courtesy.

I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure.

Many reality shows have failed because everyone's acting.

The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.

I've always hated people in costumes with big heads, where you don't know what's behind it.

No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

No one realizes how much pain is hidden behind my smile.

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

All my work's been disguise, really: hiding behind the character.