Pretending Quotes - Page 27

• I'm just as intrigued by acting as ever. It's an ongoing process. There's no arrival. There's no point at which you say "Oh, OK, done it, got it." It just doesn't happen. And that's true of any creative endeavor. For me, it's just a lifelong interest. I'm very much interested in the craft. I started by doing plays and it took me a long time to feel comfortable doing movies, working with cameras. I felt like I was a theater actress pretending that I was a movie actress for quite a while. Now, I just love the process of working with cameras and being on a set and trying to put a film together.

  Annette Bening

  Long, Creative, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I'm not pretending I can give advice to every single person or every single couple for every situation; I'm making the point that we are not going to get to equality in the workforce before we get to equality in the home. Not going to happen.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Couple, Home, Giving

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• Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

  China Mieville

  Ideas, Ridiculous, Fantastic

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• I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Mean, Reality, Chaos

  Rabih Alameddine (2015). “Koolaids”, p.146, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible.

  Diablo Cody

  Fake People, Real, Sunday

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• I love women. I always have. I'm not pretending that I understand them, but I just love women. I love being in their presence and I love everything about them.

  William H. Macy

  Love Is

  Source: collider.com

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• What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.

  Steve Buscemi

  Crazy, Space, Special

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• There's always the day where you do the effort noises, so there's a lot of grunts, huffing and puffing, pretending like you're hopping over things, pretending like you're getting hit, and pretending like you're kicking. If any of that was recorded, it's some of the silliest stuff I'll ever do, as an actor, but it's fun and liberating, in a way, 'cause no one can see me. I videotape myself doing it sometimes, to send to my friends just to remind us how ridiculous our jobs are.

  Dave Franco

  Fun, Effort, Ridiculous

  Source: collider.com

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• You have big names in Scientology running around pretending to be the nicest people, and they take the care to talk to you and look at you in the eye, but that's all part of the process. That's all part of being in the church - to be a good example, to ingratiate yourself to Hollywood so that they'll say, "Hey, I don't know why you're attacking Scientology." It's all purposeful. I did it, I know!

  Leah Remini

  Running, Eye, People

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends. I had this conservatory in my house - three steps went to up to kind of a raised part of our kitchen. I used it as the stage. Every night after school I used to download backing tracks of songs I loved and perform to myself. My mum was trying to cook and I was pretending I was at the O2 arena.

  Sam Smith

  Song, Dad, Party

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Acting is always sort of the same - like you want to be - you know you're pretending and you want to make it as real as you can. That's the similarity. The mediums other than that are completely different. I mean you know with camera work you're doing really small detailed work and you know if you do anything too big you've sort of failed. And with stage, especially with the play I'm doing right now, I'm doing a farce, and it's so over the top that you can't actually be too big. So it's just completely different.

  Mary McCormack

  Real, Mean, Acting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

  Amy Sedaris

  Pet, Losing, Sometimes

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• I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be God and basically determining the fate of my characters. But as a reader, I'm a sucker. I'm very sentimental. I get upset when people that I like die. And yet I have killed off characters in my books quite heartlessly, and sometimes found that readers were very upset by it.

  Jay McInerney

  Reading, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family.

  Sloane Crosley

  Phones, Cells, Tears

  Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.35, Penguin

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• Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Coffee, Black, Watches

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.143, Scholastic UK

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• Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Games, Two

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.26, Penguin

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• Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  People, Being Me

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• There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

  Drew Barrymore

  Design, Risk, Dare

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

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• The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

  David Bowie

  Years, Able, Transformation

  "Global streams of David Bowie's songs on Spotify soar 2,822% after his death" by Elle Hunt, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2016.

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• I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Easy, Performing

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• And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fall, Tears, Hot

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• You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

  Charles Baxter

  Smart, Party, Looks

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• ...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

  Alice Hoffman

  Crime, Worst

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”

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• You gain power by pretending to be weak.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Power, Gains, Weak

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Believe, Doe, Glamour

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