Quotes About Pretense

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.

The art of making much show with little substance.

Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears, and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.

A delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

No matter what has happened, always behave as if nothing had happened.

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

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want

It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn't know me.

I think it's always the emotional situations that are more tricky to nail and get into because I don't want to pretend.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

Isn't there a mirror someplace where you can go admire yourself?" - Molly "I never knew a woman so hung up on my good looks." - Kevin "All your women are hung up on your good looks. They just pretend it's your personality." "I swear, somebody needs to spank you." "You are, like, so not the man to do it." "You are, like, such a damned brat.

A veces un muro no es más que un muro, Sugar Beth. En tu caso, sin embargo, la erección de barreras es una ocupación preocupante. No vives la vida, sólo finges vivirla.

No puedo resistirme a ti —dijo Alex con suavidad. —¿Lo sabes, no? Y ya me he cansado den fingir lo contrario —adoptó una expresión de profunda preocupación. —Pero no te amo, Daisy, y no puedes hacerte una idea de cuánto lo siento, porque si tuviera que amar a alguien, sería a ti.

I pretended not to be too interested in the gun.

Her sexual swagger is only the convention of a woman who suspects that there is little hope for happiness with a man, and who hedges her bet by pretending that she is grateful to be alone.

The implications that I could so readily dispose of Peeta, that I'm in love with Gale, that the whole thing has been an act.

I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.

Even in the most authentic documentary there is always a fictional person—the person telling the story. I have never created a more fictional character than the researching "I" in my doctorate, a self that begins in pretended ignorance and then slowly arrives at knowledge, not at all in the fitful, chancy way I myself arrived at it, but step by step, proof by proof, according to the rules.

Everybody in L.A. is a songwriter, producer, actor, creative. For some reason, you're supposed to go to a bar and all hang out and act like you like each other. There is a lot of fake stuff that goes on.