Quotes About Pretending

The whole reason why I'd left was to start over and pretend I didn't have a past.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

The forties are the time to rediscover community on a more realistic plane. Before this decade is out, if you are determined to become authentically yourself, you will find a way to assemble all the parts of your nature into one whole. You will have to stop pretending to be the person you have been and begin to recognize and ultimately accept who, or what, you are becoming.

This was yet another good thing about drinking, of course: not that drinking made you forget things, but that it made it possible for you to plausibly pretend you'd forgotten things.

If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

Was he pretending to be jealous to conceal the fact that he was?

Or he was simply pretending—like many drinkers, he liked to think each new day drew a line under the day before.

Since we're playing that game… I tilted my face up to his and gave him a lovesick gaze. "Do you have to sneeze?" he asked. "Be quiet. I'm pretending to enjoy your company, just as you said." "Try not to strain anything." "Oh, I won't. I'm very good at faking it." That shut him up.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.

Money is sleight of hand,' Tehol said, nodding. 'Unless you've got diamonds in your hands. Then it's not just an idea any more. If you want to know the cheat behind the whole game, it's right there, lasses. Even when money's just an idea, it has power. Only it's not real power. Just the promise of power. But that promise is enough so long as everyone keeps pretending it's real. Stop pretending and it all falls apart.

I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.

Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.

There is no compromise when it comes to someones delicate feelings, the only way out is to stop pretending and set yourself free from someones life.

When you have fallen low, she told herself, what hurts is pretending you are high.

I felt as though I were pretending to be grown-up.

How exactly have you managed to spend your entire career until now pretending to be a nice person?" (...) "It is not a complex problem to appear nice to people! You identify the most popular targets in each of your classes, learn what they value about themselves, and give them a minimum of three relevant compliments each week. So long as they think you are agreeable, others will follow their lead.

She was playing with semantics. I felt certain that she understood the word "tip" in English. She enjoyed pretending that she thought I wanted the Duchess to be upside down with her face buried in the sewage of some manhole while her beautifully shod feet waved desperate high-heels in the air.

Sometimes I have to stop pretending I'm interested in what she's saying in order to realize that I actually am interested.

I've increasingly found that people never truly tire of playing games and dressing up, no matter how many years pass. Our lies now are just more sophisticated; our words to deceive, more eloquent. From cowboys and Indians, doctors and nurses, to husband and wife, we've never stopped pretending.

I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.

He was numb and empty and he drank two fingers of whiskey from his bathroom glass before he lay down. The darkness pressed too closely on him. He turned on the bathroom light and went back to bed. He pretended Molly was in the bathroom brushing her hair.