Pretending Quotes

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

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

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

It's a different thing shooting for 10 weeks in India as opposed to on a set on stage pretending you're in India.

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.

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

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.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

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.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.