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I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows. — Geena Davis

It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man. — Lenny Henry

Sometimes when Sam's pretending to be in love with me, my stomach does funny things."
"Well, get some milk of magnesia and stop it. — Libba Bray

I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law. — Jane Smiley

The secret is authenticity. The reason people fail is because they're pretending to be something they're not. — Oprah Winfrey

You are a human mind again, pretending to be a human being, interacting with another mind, playing a drama called love. — Eckhart Tolle

Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth we just want to be ourselves. — Ann Marie Aguilar

I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different. — Liana Liberato

I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night. — Kenny Hickey

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

Women have to stop pretending the choices we make, particularly if we have a platform, don't affect others. We have to be held accountable. — Keli Goff

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay. — Robbie Williams

Standing just behind them, pretending to be a part of their group and yet so obviously not, was a shape that did not belong. — Tim Lebbon

I tried to learn. I wanted to learn to be righteous. I wanted to know. But I could only pretend. — Robert Jackson Bennett

Why would I do that? Why would I put all this effort into pretending to be ... less than I am. — Caitlin Moran

We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not. — Tommy Tran

One artificially intelligent supercomputer pretending to be a hostile alien race for the purpose of testing humanity's character? — Ernest Cline

Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science. — Rick Perlstein

Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney. — Christopher Eccleston

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. — Jonathan Safran Foer

She never felt like she belonged anywhere,except for when she was lying on her bed, pretending to be somewhere else. — Rainbow Rowell

I asked this question: How can I think about my brain when it's my brain doing the thinking? So is this brain pretending to be me thinking about it? — E.L. Doctorow

Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom. — Victor Hugo

...Don't you ever get the feeling that for all that people try to be so civilized and sophisticated, we're really just animals pretending to be human? — Marie Zhuikov

As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really. — Douglas Booth

Just like a kitten pretending to be a lion. — Kiki Hamilton

When was the last time you felt like someone knew you and not the person you've been pretending to be. When was the last time you felt like yourself. — Lang Leav

The world is full of actors pretending to be human — J.D. Salinger

Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine. — Jerry Saltz

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions. — Michael Musto

DONOVAN: Now I understand my strengths. Because of Journey, I no longer waste time pretending to be anyone besides the guy in the mirror. — Bijou Hunter

It's hard to remember who you were when you're constantly pretending to be someone you're not. — Amy Ewing

Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think. — Sue Grafton

Pretending to be good might be the same with pretending to be right, its just you are selfish on your own because you think only for yourself.. — Jinnul Jr.

I sat beside Rosie, pretending to be her friend. — Graeme Simsion

Now is when we can stop pretending to be normal. — E. Lockhart

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. — Oscar Wilde

I wanted someone to know that before I started a life pretending to be less than everyone around me. — Ally Condie

Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool. — Sallie Tisdale

Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems. — Chuck Palahniuk

I'll be a girl ... pretending to be a boy ... pretending to be a girl. The thought alone is enough to make me dizzy. — Stacey Jay

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Don't go on pretending to be someone you are not — Sizzla

We're multigenerational Squires. (Carl)
Which means what? You prance around with tinfoil armor and plastic swords pretending to be knights? (Nick) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

How long can you pretend to be something before you aren't pretending anymore? — Daniel Abraham

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American. — James Hunter

A girl should never be stupid unless she is pretending to be stupid to save her own life, Lina said. — Sister Souljah

Dagmar knew there were worse things in this world than pretending to be a caring, demure woman. For instance, actually being a caring, demure woman. — G.A. Aiken

You gain power by pretending to be weak. — Chuck Palahniuk

It's like pretending to be Santa and then stabbing someone with a candy cane! — Ellery Adams

In New York, pretending to be above the struggle means no seat on the bus and a table next to the kitchen. — Mason Cooley

We were all too good at pretending to be normal, like the world would end if anyone realized who we actually were inside-- — Jung Yun

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

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde! — Anne Rice

I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring. — Jacki Weaver

Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness. — John Ortberg

There is no use of pretending in front of people
who had repented pretending to be someone else. — Toba Beta

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else? — Mike Medavoy

I'm just like that woman really. Or rather, that's what I
used to be like: someone pretending to know everything,
hidden away in my own silence — Paulo Coelho

If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend. — Karin Slaughter

I'm lying here in a tent, pretending to be asleep but actually fearing for my life as I watch a bunny murderer have a conversation with our campfire. — Amy Plum

All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children. — Sara Raasch

Be original, stop pretending to be someone you are not, be your own light in this world. — Leon Brown

God's eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana. — Lauren Child

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you. — Robert Breault

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said.
'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be. — Orson Scott Card

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be. — Patrick Rothfuss

Acting is pretending to be someone else. — Anna Paquin

Maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was — Sue Grafton

Laura, why do you go around pretending to be Julie Andrews , when you're actually Hyacinth Bucket? — Harriet Evans

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me. — Jamie Lee Curtis

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living. — James Gandolfini

Bella you are my life now
hate me for who I am I don't care at least im not pretending to be someone im not- Kristen Stewart — Stephenie Meyer

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose ... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry. — Robert Breault

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better
especially richer or more fashionable
than he is. — William Makepeace Thackeray

You can get lost, pretending to be someone you're not. — Karen Hawkins

This was better. I don't know if I could have gone at her that way if I wasn't pretending to be Daenerys in the Game of Thrones books, but I think so. — Stephen King

Doubt comes to the door in darkness, pretending to be alone and in need of your compassionate ear. But if you let him in, he'll bring his friends. — Julia Cameron

But now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not. — Alice Hoffman

To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat. — Holly Black

I am who I've been pretending to be my whole life. — Jarod Kintz

And I'm sure everyone else would too if you only allowed them to see more of who you really are, rather than pretending to be someone you're not! — Adele Rose

It must be said, some success. For instance, he had spent those fifteen years pretending to be an out-of-work actor, which was plausible enough. — Douglas Adams

She was so good at pretending to be normal it disgusted her. — Allie Burke

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

We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't. — Joe Strummer

Quit pretending to be humble when you are really just a self-abusing, emotional, drama junkie. — Bryant McGill

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. — Michael Ledeen

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood. — Daryl Sabara

Kindness is an extraordinary moment and status even if it has to be pretending. — M.F. Moonzajer

I deserve someone who likes me for who I am pretending to be. — Arj Barker

frightening person pretending to be normal. Things — Jon Ronson

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else. — Saoirse Ronan

When someone is pretending to be something, or hiding who they are or what they believe, they're really more ... protecting themselves. — Kelsey Sutton

You have to be yourself," she said, more than half wishing her nature was as brave as his. "Once you start pretending, you tend to get stuck with it. — Emma Holly

I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems. — Barbara Park

It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are. — Susan Meissner

You have to be careful how you fake it, though, because things like that can stick and before you know it you become what you're pretending to be.. — Jillian Lauren