Quotes About Pretending

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid.

It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're pretending - that is, when they're acting. The really good ones don't always seem to know themselves.

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.

Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn't I? I'm sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending you're not for so long. After that, it becomes ridiculous.

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.

I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.

I'm just very good at pretending.

Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.

I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.

I've definitely gotten a few jobs by pretending like I knew what I was talking about.

Most women are happier at home! They're pretending that they like working, but they're not making money because they don't stay all night at the office. They don't go the extra mile.

Any actor who says that they don't want the attention, and that they're tired of all the interviews and photoshoots, are just pretending.

Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid to be on a set, pretending to be other people is fun.

I've been pretending to be normal for so much of my life.

My greatest acting performance was pretending to enjoy the movie 'Selma'.

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

Can you explore real issues as a fake character? Yes - it's called acting. Or fiction. But acting is not a method of engaging with the actual world, just as pretending to know what a character might eat does not a novel make - much less make that make-believe real.

Football is, honestly, so objectively bad that I have always been convinced that the only reason it is so 'popular' is some kind of mass conspiracy. Everyone who 'likes' it is just pretending to like it because they see other people 'liking' it, and now we are all forced to endure it.

Engineers love pretending to be beer snobs.

I think there are some people who have those childhoods that are really bad and so what happens is that they find an escape through pretending to be other people.