Pretend Quotes

I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

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

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

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.

I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball.

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

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.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.