Quotes About Pretense

I don't mind, I'm the Cool Girl. Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they're fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl.

rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

You were the best man you've ever been with me. And you know it. The only time in your life you've ever liked yourself was pretending to be someone I might like. Without me? You're just your dad.

Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they're fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl.

You're still desperate to have everyone think you're perfect. You never want to be the bad guy.

I was probably happier for those few years--pretending to be someone else--than I ever have been before or after. I can't decide what that means.

You didn't have to stab yourself on stage. All that blood —" "It was ketchup." "It was gross

There is a time in life when a man with a little acting ability is able to deceive even himself.

and won out of her a stiff unused smile.

He was one of those guys who smile as a tactic, you know, and not because they actually feel anything worth smiling about. Kind of like the way a chimpanzee smiles.

Hypocrisy is just another kind of cruelty.

I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.

I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.

People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

I just don't feel like composing music for films because I find there is too much pretense in the industry and creativity has been replaced by the sole thought of making money.

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they aren't there.

He used] as English accent, for no apparent reason except that it's perhaps easier to say what's most true when you can pretend you're someone else.

I put on embarrassment in the same way I put on Liliya's dress. It clings to my skin.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

I am so ashamed before my friends—to be known to be left by the one who supposedly knew me best, each hour is a room of shame, and I am swimming, swimming holding my head up, smiling, joking, ashamed, ashamed, like being naked with the clothed, or being a child, having to try to behave while hating the terms of your life.