Quotes About Pretense

There is a false love that will make you something you are not.

I think every job you have to lie to get. You always say how wonderful it all is, that it's an amazing script - "I love you, you're such a great director." I think every actor does that.

If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

most lies are acted out, rather than told

You might discover, instead, that you were just afraid and, so, pretending to be moral.

escribo porque me gusta vivir las vidas vicarias que se multiplican en mis tramas y porque, aun reconociendo la vacuidad de la empresa, finjo así que el mundo importa

Because inside, people are dirty dogs. Everybody. The only difference is some people try to hide it and others don't bother.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

I am not a man of my time. In fact I find it hard not to declare myself its enemy. Not, as I often remark, that I fail to understand it. My comment is merely a pious one. Because I am easy-going I prefer not to be aggressive or hostile and therefore I say that I do not understand those matters which I ought to say I hate or despise. I have sharp ears but I pretend to be hard of hearing, finding as I do that is more elegant to feign this handicap than to admit that I have heard some vulgar sound

I had been wading up to my neck in all this niceness for years. I woke up to it, went to sleep in it. I breathed niceness and slowly it was killing me.

I tried to slip past her again, but she blocked my path and then stomped her foot down in front of me again, pretending like she was Gandalf and I was the balrog.

Countless human beings wear masks which they hope will cover up what they dislike about themselves.

You can only force a smile for so long until it becomes a grimace.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

Hun gjorde en latterlig, feiende sorti, som om hun var på audition for en nyinnspilling av Tatt av vinden.

Facades were heavy armor in the end. They might protect you, but they took a great deal of strength to lug around.

You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

Her head had turned away quickly as she stepped down, not to hide her tears but to soften the fact of their absence.

I have an idea of who I wish I were, and that obscures my understanding of who I actually am. Sometimes I pretend even to myself to enjoy activities that I don't really enjoy, such as shopping, or to be interested in subjects that don't much interest me, such as foreign policy.