Quotes About Pretense

You have anxiety?" "No. But I told them I did and they said I could bring my dog.

When you have a star, he becomes the focus of a variety show, and he has to take himself seriously. But with Super Dave, it's all phony anyway.

Faking is a social activity in which people act together to draw a veil over unwanted realities and encourage each other in the exercise of their illusory powers.

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.

Anybody can be charming if they don`t mind faking it.

But she wasn't, and here she was again in the middle of a situation that called for fake smiles and bullshitting, two talents that were as alien to her as a Klingon mating dance.

Oddly enough, I had found somebody. What, what? Deeply dead Dexter dating débutante doxies? Sex among the Undead? Has my need to imitate life gone all the way to faking orgasms?

It's like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is. And you already know that and it's like a game for you.

teeth. I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it—that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.

What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.

Did I see through the male tricks because I was destined to scheme that way myself? Or do girls see through the tricks, too, and just pretend not to notice?

There never were any women who liked to cook for men everyday. There were only women who cooked for survival and pretended to like it. And now there are men who cook for survival. Like you. Think of this as survivalist training. Very macho.

It's just—in my opinion—the Internet is a place where people end up making themselves feel awful, or hurting other people. And everyone pretends." His throat jerked as he swallowed. "Everyone tries to put the best versions of themselves across. To fake it. And when they're not doing that, they're sitting behind their screens, passing judgment and feeling superior to whoever they think's being sexist or racist that day.

I wondered how many of the guests were faking something—confidence, friendship, maybe even love.

Here she was, barely twenty-eight, working on a studio lot, not doing what she'd dreamed, exactly, but doing what people did in this business: taking meetings, reading scripts, and hearing pitches—pretending to like everything while finding myriad reasons to make nothing.

I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting.

This is my disguise, but it doesn't work.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

I act like I'm a bit stupid.

You have to be quite stupid to act.