Pretend Quotes

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

I could lie and pretend that I hunt and camp, but that wouldn't be me. Clothes? Shopping? That's stuff I like!

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

I always pretend like I'm nervous no matter what. I try to fall asleep.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by.

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors.