Pretend Quotes - page 12

I remember watching Gene Hackman, or Robert Duvall. To just see them as actors. You think of them as these icons. But you see them mess up their lines, flub their lines, whatever, you just see the human being. But then when they're "in" it's totally about playing pretend. The game of it. (Ray Liotta)
It is generally thought very ridiculous to pretend to write an Heroic Poem, or a fine Discourse upon any Subject, without understanding the Propriety of the Language wrote in; and to me it seems no less ridiculous for one to pretend to make a good Picture without understanding Perspective... View quote
Brook Taylor
By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone... But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on. View quote
John Mayer
I like staying in hotels. I like their tiny soap. I like to pretend it's regular-sized and my muscles are huge. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. View quote
Orson Scott Card
A liar sees lies,” said Taleswapper. "Even when they aren't there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can't stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be. View quote
Orson Scott Card
I don't pretend to understand what the physicists mean by time, but for people, it isn't so-and-so many measured units; it's events, experiences. A man who crowds his life and dies young has lived longer than one who got old sitting in tame sameness. View quote
Poul Anderson
And I don't care what it takes my friend I will never go hungry, go hungry again Oh, and I don't care what I have to pretend I will never go hungry, go hungry again And the phoenix she rises, she is sure to descend She will never go hungry, go hungry again And you're looking to me more and more like a godsend We will never go hungry, go hungry again And we owe each other nothing, there's no one left here to offend We will never go hungry, go hungry again. View quote
Courtney Love
The fact is I give people what they need and deserve to hear - exactly what they don't get from politicians - and that is The Truth. Our country is a mess right now and we don't have time to pretend otherwise. We don't have time to waste on being politically correct. View quote
Donald Trump
Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say. "Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!" It's all I can do not to slap him. View quote
Suzanne Collins
Don't. Don't let's pretend when there's no one around. (Suzanne Collins)
They're betting on how long I'll live!" I burst out. "They're not my friends!" "Well, try and pretend!" snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me. View quote
Suzanne Collins
Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you need to do is show up and pretend to be happy for them." "That's one of the few things I won't have to pretend, Plutarch," I tell him. View quote
Suzanne Collins
Once my lover, now my friend; What a cruel thing to pretend. What a cunning way to condescend; Once my lover, and now my friend.Oh, you creep up like the clouds And you set my soul at ease. Then you let your love abound, And you bring me to my knees. View quote
Fiona Apple
And I will pretend That I don't know of your sins Until you are ready to confess. But all the time, all the time, I'll know, I'll know.And you can use my skin To bury secrets in, And I will settle you down. View quote
Fiona Apple
I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when they said that was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it. I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with. In the next breath, this person said to me, ‘When you're passionate about a role, there's nobody that can touch you, but you have to learn to do this also...' But I don't know how to sit there and pretend I love something when I don't! View quote
Sherilyn Fenn
Fans hate a hypocrite. I believe they detect the real you behind every role and if they are led to believe you are something you pretend you aren't, they resent it. View quote
Irene Dunne
I have a new CD; it's in stores, and when you have a CD in stores, you have to do in-store appearances, and if nobody shows up, I just pretend like I'm shopping. That's how I shop; I sit behind a table with a pen. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
In real life, I'm just an actor. I play pretend. I tell stories. View quote
Kerry Washington
You pretend you're happy. That you've got it all. But don't be upset If you fall on your knees. And beg like a dog. View quote
Ed Harcourt
You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world. (Octave Mirbeau)
I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens. View quote
Jodi Picoult
You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control. View quote
Jodi Picoult
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so. View quote
Harriet Martineau
Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do. View quote
Cassandra Clare