Pretend Quotes

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.

When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.

I don't really want to get married to get married pretend.

Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys.

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.