We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
No one can pretend to say that a fish is ever killed by heat, for many kinds of fish, in the middle of summer, and in the burning heat of the sun, do either play, as it were, on the surface of the water, or hide themselves under the leaves, weeds, or other substances at the bottom.
Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.
I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, 'This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role.' I pretend I'm the producer and I think, 'If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part,' and if that doesn't feel right to me, then I don't even go audition for it.
There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.
I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.
I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.
I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.
Italy during Shakespeare's time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don't waste my time on ignorance.
I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
Don't ignore big problems, and don't try to pretend that problems are smaller than they are.
I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.
The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.
I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.
If I was going to pretend to be the supermom next door, it would've been counterfeit and a lie. I figured I had to write something out of a new place.
I think that episode in the third season was great. I'm really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he's a rock star.
I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'
We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.
The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!
I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept my own life and not pretend anything else. I think that's what we all struggle with.
