Quotes About Pretend

We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.

I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.

There's a long way to fall when you pretend that you're so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that's protected by fame or success. It's scary, and it's the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.

In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.

It's crazy the things a person can pretend not to notice.

This is the world of pretend. We are artists and we are servants of the stage, and I take both jobs very seriously. As artists, we work as a collective—all for one and one for all. As servants, we work for thos who venture out alone, otherwise known as performers.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.

If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to tell you his party wants to nominate you for President of the United States, but you're not really surprised.

There are girls, but they baffle him. They pretend to be stupid, by way of protective coloration. Passive, still, and cryptic. They say the opposite of what they mean, to test if you can see through them. Which they want. Then resent when you do.

He did not like me and I did not like him, though I tried harder than he to conceal my dislike.

It is very dangerous for you to be who you are, said Brother Edik. and so you must pretend to be someone you are not. But how can I pretend to be someone I am not when I don't know who I am?

But…what if he pretended to be engaged? His mother would feel free to marry the man she loved. How about if I introduce her to my fiancée? Think that would do it? Jim started, then dourly eyed the six chocolate hats Davis had lined up on the counter. Why haven't we heard anything about her until now? Who is she?

I avoided situations that might otherwise trip or jangle my hypersensitive wiring, and I learned to pretend I was paying attention or following a logical point when my mind qas off chasing rabbits in a thousand directions.

Looking back now, it's funny to think we got so worked up, because usually the Sales were a big disappointment....But the point was, I suppose, we'd all of us in the past found something at a Sale, something that had become special...and so however much we tried to pretend otherwise, we couldn't ever shake off the old feelings of hope and excitement.

Why, Mr. Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?

Are you calling me a poseur? I should be offended." "You could prove me wrong." I stuffed my bag in, took out my binder, then gestured at the cigarette in his hand. "Smoke that." "In here? I think that's against the rules." "Which shouldn't bother you at all, if you're the rebel you pretend to be.

No doubt a serious spy would pretend to have no interest in politics, or even to be a Republican.

Spirit is born of the imitation of spirit and a writer must pretend to be a writer in order finally to become a writer.

But evangelicals are taught to pretend that there is no contradiction, because the Bible must not be questioned.

You know what you are? All of you? Children. Little kids playing pretend, with toys. You've spent years obsessing about this and now it's here, much to everyone's surprise, it's actually here, and it's 'tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.' Tomorrow, when the sun comes up. Tomorrow, when the weather is warmer. Tomorrow, when we have more help, when things aren't so bad, when everything is aligned just right so that there's no risk of anything bad possibly happening.

They sold the furniture. There is nothing to sit upon and no table to set, so it is the kitchen for you, my girl. Pretend you are at Wuthering Heights. Everyone there ate in the kitchen.

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world...