Quotes About Pretense

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

matter of form, rather than substance.

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

So many people pretended interest in one thing while truly seeking to benefit their own desires. She was thankful she'd learned early on about the games people played and the falsehoods of fools.

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

What was the fun of being upper-class if you had to work so hard to appear bored all the time?

No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending to be something you aren't because you're trying to please a bunch of judgmental hypocrites and shitheads is not the way to be happy. Living the life you want to live is. It really is that simple.

Thank you for getting me out of there," the dragon panted as they landed. "I'm Dune." "Six-Claws. What was that all about?" Dune immediately looked at Six-Claws's talons — yes, he had six claws on each of his front feet instead of the usual five; thanks so much for letting everyone know right away, parents — and then tried very hard to pretend that he hadn't.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face to rule it. —H. L. Mencken

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

this land has relied on masquerade for millennia

He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.