Pretending Quotes

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
Bette Davis

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Jean Paul Sartre

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
Bill Cosby

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
Aesop

If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But-and I am only saying this because I care-there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
Val Kilmer

You always admire what you really don't understand.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum Mechanics.
Richard P. Feynman

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Charles Barkley

Better is the enemy of good.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George Orwell

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
Sitting Bull

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
Marquis de Sade

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
David Ogilvy

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
Stevie Wonder

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

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.
Ben Affleck

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
Cary Grant

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.
Tori Amos

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer,
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Diogenes

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.
River Phoenix

I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.
Robert Redford

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

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.
Larry David

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
Earl Nightingale

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
Carlos Santana

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
James Agate

Beware of a man with manners.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
Harold Coffin

Most style is not honest enough.
F. L. Lucas

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.
Jennifer Lopez

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.