Make Believe Quotes - Page 5

• I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Fake People, Believe, Guy

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• There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.

  Thomas Huxley

  Integrity, Believe, Hands

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

  Judd Nelson

  Believe, Careers, Mask

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

  Dakota Fanning

  Believe, Men, Fire

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• That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool.

  Mark Webber

  Fun, Believe, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• My mom (Kate McCauley) is an actress, so I guess she's the one that taught me it was a possibility. For as long as I can remember, I've always played make-believe ... It's something that I've always done, that I've always been comfortable doing.

  Anne Hathaway

  Mom, Believe, Long

  Interview with Milosh Marinovich, www.cbsnews.com. June 21, 2006.

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• Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Believe, Play, Adults

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• As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.

  Eric Balfour

  Believe, People, Battle

  "Eric Balfour Exclusive Interview DO NOT DISTURB". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 19, 2011.

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• Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Men, Can Do

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2794, Delphi Classics

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• The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you because they're all make-believe. Then that way if you were actually ever driven to do any of those things, the pressure's off because you'd have already written them down. It's therapy.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Writing, Way

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• I prefer shooting on location, just because it always helps you. You go some place, you put your life on hold even more than when you've settled in some place. You can make a new life so it opens yourself up to the make-believe and the imagination in a way when you aren't burdened by things that remind you of your life all the time.

  Willem Dafoe

  Believe, Imagination, New Life

  "Willem Dafoe and Thomas Haden Church JOHN CARTER Set Visit Intervew". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.

  Bob Barr

  Country, Real, Believe

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• It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Lying, Believe, Kids

  "Misty".

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• Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.

  Billy Rose

  Believe, Moon, Sea

  "It's Only a Paper Moon" (song) (1933). Cowritten with E. Y. Harburg.

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• Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her well‐shaped tuffet—all forgotten or discounted.And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the world, you have to give up the fantasies, the make‐believe.

  Rob Thurman

  Giving Up, Believe, Kids

  Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.10, Penguin

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• The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

  James M. Barrie

  Believe, Boys, Differences

  "Peter Pan". Book by J. M. Barrie. Chapter 6: "The Little House", 1911.

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• All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in their imaginary worlds, because that's where they're in charge - where they're God. Did you know that Hemingway's mother dressed him as a girl until he was six years old?" I was not offended by Claudia's glib psychological theory. Like many glib psychological theories, it struck me as fundamentally correct.

  Philip Sington

  Girl, Mother, Believe

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• This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.

  James M. Barrie

  Believe, Greed, Tea

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Believe, Farce

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• She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Children, Believe, Nurse

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• The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

  Eric Hoffer

  Leadership, Believe, Sacrifice

  "The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements" by Eric Hoffer, (p. 111), 1951.

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• Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.

  Daniel Keyes

  Believe, Together, World

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fear, Believe, Writing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

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• Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Believe, People, Important

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Reality, People

  Joyce Meyer (2004). “Starting Your Day Right: Devotions for Each Morning of the Year”, Hachette UK

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