Quotes About Pretense

Actors are bloody marvelous at hiding.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Talking to her, he realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant.

Affectations can be dangerous.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

It was really tiring always pretending to be someone else. Not my life, not my real name, nothing.

From my hair to my toes to my nails. Everything's fake. Everything! Even my heart is fake.

Outsiders pretend to be insiders, and it makes them unlikable. Insiders pretend to be outsiders, and we love to play along.

Nothing is ever resolved," Rita said, tired. "That's one of those fake concepts. How can you resolve with a man dead at thirty-four? What kind of peace can you make with that? Lately I've been thinking that the conflict is for the best. Because then we are not pretending that anything about this can ever be reasonable.

Everyone's so narrow and mean and --' 'No. Only a few people are. But the rest of us -- don't you see? The rest of us become narrow and mean when we live falsely....

It is easy to touch up your outward appearance, to look as if you have it all together. Your attempts to look good can fool most people. But I see straight through you, into the depths of your being. There is no place for pretense in your relationship with Me. Rejoice in the relief of being fully understood. Talk with Me about your struggles and feelings of inadequacy.

The man has more masks than a whole troupe of Italian players.

Around the start of the fourth year, the child begins to elaborate an understanding of metarepresentational agency: the child attributes intentional attitudes, such as belief and pretense, to people's representations of the world. Only then can children examine whether their and other people's thoughts about the world are true or fictive, likely or incredible, exaggerated or imprecise, worth changing one's mind for or forgetting.

To work at a remote company demanded great communication skills, and everyone had them. It was one of the great initial delights. Every corporation has the same platitudes for the importance of clear communication yet utterly fails to practice it. There was little jargon at Automattic. No "deprioritized action items" or "catalyzing of cross functional objectives." People wrote plainly, without pretense and with great charm.

It takes intelligence to act dumb.

anyone in command feigns ease when death is near. We do it for those around us, and we do it for ourselves. We do it because the sole alternative is to die cringing. The difference between an experienced leader and an untested one is that only the untested one is shocked at how well they can pretend when their hand is forced.

The one time of year when everyone wears a mask... not just me.

I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!'... It's the same with motorcycles.