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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
The secret is authenticity. The reason people fail is because they're pretending to be something they're not.
— Oprah Winfrey
Suzanne is not a horrible person masquerading as a nice one, just an angry one pretending to be normal.
— Meg Rosoff
You are a human mind again, pretending to be a human being, interacting with another mind, playing a drama called love.
— Eckhart Tolle
This is Louisiana, Dave. Guatemala North. Quit pretending it's the United States. Life will make a lot more sense, he said.
— James Lee Burke
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
— Emanuel Celler
Normally it is not polite to go into somebody's room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.
— Daniel Handler
His expression softens, his hand running through my hair, over my shoulder, down my arm. "Stop pretending I'm not what you need.
— Karina Halle
To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.
— Roberto Benigni
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
One artificially intelligent supercomputer pretending to be a hostile alien race for the purpose of testing humanity's character?
— Ernest Cline
I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me.
— Heidi Montag
It crouches like a spider, waiting for us ti get close enough, pretending to be inanimate.
— Kendare Blake
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
You are not a spiritual being in a monkey body you are a monkey pretending to be a spiritual being controlling itself.
— Christopher Zzenn Loren
It was only the sea sounding weary
After so many lifetimes
Of pretending to be rushing off somewhere
And never getting anywhere. — Charles Simic
After so many lifetimes
Of pretending to be rushing off somewhere
And never getting anywhere. — Charles Simic
I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything.
— Selima Hill
I wait for him to say the words, I'm done pretending.
— Krista Ritchie
Just like a kitten pretending to be a lion.
— Kiki Hamilton
Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.
— Fred Rogers
Maybe I should get my mom something," he said bitterly. "What says 'Thanks for throwing me out of the house and pretending I died'?" "Orchids?
— Cassandra Clare
In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.
— Tina Fey
To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.
— Jessica Lange
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
— C.S. Lewis
As if I hadn't spent a lifetime pretending to forget.
— Kate Morton
I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending.
— Jamie Bell
It wasn't just pretending everything was fine or grasping at normalcy, but grabbing it by the ears and making it my bitch.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
You're a defiant act of creation. You're a whole solar system pretending to be a person.
— Elisabeth Hewer
If everyone stopped pretending
capitalism would drop dead — Carl-John X. Veraja
capitalism would drop dead — Carl-John X. Veraja
How can love let it go when it has no place to go? And I can't go along pretending that love isn't here to stay ... Catch me I'm falling for you ...
— Toni Gonzaga
But lately, RBG was tired of pretending not to hear.
— Irin Carmon
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
Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.
— Frederick Lenz
That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't.
— Claire Keegan
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
— Katharine Hepburn
If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.
— Loudon Wainwright III
The yellow Lego was brick-shaped again. Pretending innocence.
— William Gibson
You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
— George Bernard Shaw
The beautiful thing about losing your illusions, he thought, was that you got to stop pretending.
— James S.A. Corey
Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.
— Guy Pearce
Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes
We have to stop pretending that Islam is a religion. Islam is a totalitarian ideology that aims to conquer the West.
— Edward Cline
Honesty is a suitor with piercing vision who isn't swayed by pretending and positioning.
— Lysa TerKeurst
To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
— George Santayana
Pretending to drink coffee was similar to faking an orgasm.
— Darynda Jones
Theorists! Stop pretending that you are not artists.
— Alexei Shulgin
We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't.
— Louisa May Alcott
One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
— Bob Seger
I'm really good at pretending.
— Sophie McShera
We are the universe pretending to be individuals.
— Deepak Chopra
Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!
— Craig Ferguson
Every word she says makes me feel a little more like faking a stroke and pretending to lose all memory of who I was.
— Chad Kultgen
If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.
— Eugene Mirman
Now is when we can stop pretending to be normal.
— E. Lockhart
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
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was.
— J.K. Rowling
Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
I wanted someone to know that before I started a life pretending to be less than everyone around me.
— Ally Condie
There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.
— Robert Henri
A girl should never be stupid unless she is pretending to be stupid to save her own life, Lina said.
— Sister Souljah
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
Because this is a prison, and there's a prison warden pretending to read a book, just to make others think she's an intelligent woman.
— Paulo Coelho
This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.
— Dave Eggers
Stop making parenthood harder by pretending it's not hard.
— Glennon Doyle Melton
When the electric dog finally stopped shocking him, Mack Sullivan lay outstretched on the cold concrete, pretending he was unable to move.
— Hugo Krait
You wanted to show everyone you could write about the black heart of a killer. And all the while pretending you don't even have your own dark desires.
— Naoyuki Ochiai
Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.
— Willem Dafoe
There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer.
— Tom Petty
No one cares. They're just pretending
— Unknown
When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.
— Adam Ant
Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.
— Molly Quinn
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
— Vernon Howard
— Vernon Howard
If it doesn't work horizontally as prose ... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.
— Robert Breault
Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.
— Sonia Sotomayor
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
'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be. — Orson Scott Card
It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be.
— Dawn Gluskin
I told myself that I was the one pretending to fit in, but life has taught me that we are all pretenders. Every single one of us.
— Tarryn Fisher
All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.
— Robert Breault
That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.
— Saoirse Ronan